Happiness Lies In The Absorption In Some

Personally, I Do Not See In Canada It Would Be A Feasible Thing If Any Ministry Organized Taking Over Both The Health And The Disease Of The Entire Community... Even In The Most Favourable Circumstances... There Would Be That Absence Of Competition And That Sense Of Independence... I Do Not Believe It Would Be Good For The Profession Or Good For The Public.

Observe, Record, Tabulate, Communicate. Use Your Five Senses. Learn To See, Learn To Hear, Learn To Feel, Learn To Smell, And Know That By Practice Alone You Can Become Expert.

Advice Is Sought To Confirm A Position Already Taken.

The Practice Of Medicine Is An Art, Not A Trade; A Calling, Not A Business; A Calling In Which Your Heart Will Be Exercised Equally With Your Head. Often The Best Part Of Your Work Will Have Nothing To Do With Potions And Powders, But With The Exercise Of An Influence Of The Strong Upon The Weak, Of The Righteous Upon The Wicked, Of The Wise Upon The Foolish.

As It Can Be Maintained That All The Great Advances Have Come From Men Under Forty, So The History Of The World Shows That A Very Large Proportion Of The Evils May Be Traced To The Sexagenarians, Nearly All The Great Mistakes Politically And Socially, All Of The Worst Poems, Most Of The Bad Pictures, A Majority Of The Bad Novels And Not A Few Of The Bad Sermons And Speeches.