24 Quotes by Martin H. Fischer

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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