Martin H. Fischer

A doctor whose breath smells has no right to medical opinion.

I find that most men would rather have their bellies opened for five hundred dollars than have a tooth pulled for five.

First need in the reform of hospital management? That's easy! The death of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef.

None of the great discoveries was made by a 'specialist' or a 'researcher'.

Sweat silently. Lets have no squawking about a little expenditure of energy.

Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature.

Most of the food allergies die under garlic and onion.

In diagnosis think of the easy first.

Our profession is the only one which works unceasingly to annihilate itself.

There is only one reason why men become addicted to drugsthey are weak men. Only strong men are cured and they cure themselves.

Since the Middle Ages progress in hygiene has been characterized by the conquest of stink.

Diagnosis is not the end, but the beginning of practice.

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

You must learn to talk clearly. The jargon of scientific terminology which rolls off your tongues is mental garbage.

Whenever ideas fail, men invent words.

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

There is no substitute for mothers milk.

All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.

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.

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.

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

A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions.

Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game. It is none of these - it's a state of mind.

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.

We humans are the greatest of earth's parasites.

If you are physically sick, you can elicit the interest of a battery of physicians; but if you are mentally sick, you are lucky if the janitor comes around.

If a patient cannot clean his teeth no dentist can clean them for him.

Here's good advice for practice: go into partnership with nature; she does more than half the work and asks none of the fee.

Education should be exercise it has become massage.

There is only one reason why men become addicted to drugs - they are weak men. Only strong men are cured, and they cure themselves.

Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throats.

The practice of medicine is a thinker's art the practice of surgery a plumber's.

Expect an early death - it will keep you busier.

Life preys upon life. This is biologys most fundamental fact.

Don't confuse hypothesis and theory. The former is a possible explanation; the latter, the correct one. The establishment of theory is the very purpose of science.