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

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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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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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The public blabbers about preventive medicine, but will neither appreciate nor pay for it. You get paid for what you cure. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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The only weapon with which the unconscious patient can immediately retaliate upon the incompetent surgeon is hemorrhage. – William Stewart Halsted, “The Effect of Ligation of the Common Iliac Artery on t

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I was proud to share the stories of my friends at Georgetown Law who have suffered dire medical consequences because our student insurance does not cover contraception for the purpose of preventing pregnancy. – Sandra Fluke

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