The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.
Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs.
The only way to treat the common cold is with contempt.
He who knows syphilis knows medicine
Medicine is learned by the bedside and not in the classroom. Let not your conceptions of disease come from words heard in the lecture room or read from the book. See, and then reason and compare and control. But see first.
If it were not for the great variability among individuals, medicine might as well be a science, not an art.
The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the disease and once from the medicine.