Martin H. Fischer

The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty - not marble floors and foundations.

In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.

When a man lacks mental balance in pneumonia he is said to be delirious. When he lacks mental balance without the pneumonia, he is pronounced insane by all smart doctors.

Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.

Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof.

A man who cannot work without his hypodermic needle is a poor doctor. The amount of narcotic you use is inversely proportional to your skill.

A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession.