It Is Not... That Some People Do

Engrossed Late And Soon In Professional Cares, Getting And Spending, You May May So Lay Waste Your Powers That You May Find, Too Late, With Hearts Given Away, That T Here Is No Place In Your Habit-stricken Souls For Those Gentler Influences Which Make Your Life Worth Living.

It Is Not... That Some People Do Not Know What To Do With Truth When It Is Offered To Them, But The Tragic Fate Is To Reach, After Patient Search, A Condition Of Mind-blindness, In Which. The Truth Is Not Recognized, Though It Stares You In The Face.

Be Calm And Strong And Patient. Meet Failure And Disappointment With Courage. Rise Superior To The Trials Of Life, And Never Give In To Hopelessness Or Despair. In Danger, In Adversity, Cling To Your Principles And Ideals. Aequanimitas!

To Have A Group Of Cloistered Clinicians Away Completely From The Broad Current Of Professional Life Would Be Bad For Teacher And Worse For Student. The Primary Work Of A Professor Of Medicine In A Medical School Is In The Wards, Teaching His Pupils How To Deal With Patients And Their Diseases.

There Is No Disease More Conducive To Clinical Humility Than Aneurysm Of The Aorta.