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

What a doctor wants… is practice. He shall have me. He will get more practice out of me than out of seventeen hundred of your ordinary, commonplace patients, with only one or two diseases each. – Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), 1889 — spea

A sweating ovary or a sick prostate explains most history. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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)