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01Undated

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.

Martin H. Fischer / quote

02Undated

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

Martin H. Fischer / quote

03Undated

Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.

Martin H. Fischer / quote

04Undated

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

Martin H. Fischer / quote

05Undated

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

Martin H. Fischer / quote

06Undated

Whenever ideas fail, men invent words.

Martin H. Fischer / quote