One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles.
Now of the difficulties bound up with the public in which we doctors work, I hesitate to speak in a mixed audience. Common sense in matters medical is rare, and is usually in inverse ratio to the degree of education.
I desire no other epitaph - no hurry about it, I may say - than the statement that I taught medical students in the wards, as I regard this as by far the most useful and important work I have been called upon to do.
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