It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really... want to be operated upon by a surgeon who talks broad cockney?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scientist; he is either, like the s...urgeon, a craftsman, or, like the physician and the psychologist, an artist.... This means that in order to be a good doctor a man must also have a good character, that is to say, whatever weaknesses and foibles he may have, he must love his fellow human beings in the concrete and desire their good before his own.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
psychologist Mothers with marriageable daughters ought to look out for men of this stamp, men with brains to act as protectin...g divinity, with worldly wisdom to diagnose like a surgeon, and with experience to take a mother's place in warding off evil. These are the three cardinal virtues in matrimony.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[T]hose wholemeal breads ... look hand-thrown, like studio pottery, and are fine if you have all your teeth. But if not, then not.... Perhaps the rise ... of the ... factory-made loaf, which may easily be mumbled to a pap betweeen gums, reflects the sorry state of the nation's dental health.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Will you tell me my fault, frankly as to yourself, for I had rather wince, than die. Men do not call the surgeon to commend the bo...ne, but to set it, Sir.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The wounded surgeon plies the steel That questions the distempered part;... Beneath the bleeding hands we feel The sharp compassion of the healer's art Resolving the enigma of the fever chart.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How often we must remember the art of the surgeon, which, in replacing the broken bone, contents itself with releasing the parts f...rom false position; they fly into place by the action of the muscles. On this art of nature all our arts rely.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Young Man's Best Companion, The Farrier's Sure Guide, The Veterinary Surgeon, Paradise Lost, The Pilgrim's Progress, Robinson ...Crusoe, Ash's Dictionary, and Walkingame's Arithmetic, constituted his library; and though a limited series, it was one from which he had acquired more sound information by diligent perusal than many a man of opportunities had done from a furlong of laden shelves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Many people operate under the assumption that since parenting is a natural adult function, we should instinctively know how to do ...it--and do it well. The truth is, effective parenting requires study and practice like any other skilled profession. Who would even consider turning an untrained surgeon loose in an operating room? Yet we "operate" on our children every day.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »