Quote by Harvey Cushing
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A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man — he must view the man in his world. – Harvey Cushing

Other quotes by Harvey Cushing

There is only one ultimate and effectual preventive for the maladies to which flesh is heir, and that is death. – Harvey Cushing

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Death
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The capacity of man himself is only revealed when, under stress and responsibility, he breaks through his educational shell, and he may then be a splendid surprise to himself no less than to this teachers. – Harvey Cushing

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Stress
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Three of my children are medical doctors, they know at least a hundred times as much about your body as my grandfather knew, but they dont know much more about soul than he did. – John Templeton

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The Navys paid for you to go through school, and then they need doctors to go out and take care of people who are in various different parts of the world. I decided to pay back my time first as an undersea medical officer. I was stationed in Scotland. – Laurel Clark

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Treat the patient, not the Xray. – James M. Hunter

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Medical

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running. – Groucho Marx

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