Book on the Physician Himself: And Things that Concern His Reputation and SuccessDavis, 1905 - 411 pages |
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... give you an introduction to extensive business . Avoid showing frivolity , and if you are smooth - faced and youthful - looking , unless you have some special reason for the contrary , let your moustache or beard , or both , grow , if ...
... give you an introduction to extensive business . Avoid showing frivolity , and if you are smooth - faced and youthful - looking , unless you have some special reason for the contrary , let your moustache or beard , or both , grow , if ...
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... give you time to go for when occasion arises for their use , and get others only when you have a use for them . Bear in mind that soft - rubber goods , and soft goods generally , deteriorate in keeping and finally become worthless . A ...
... give you time to go for when occasion arises for their use , and get others only when you have a use for them . Bear in mind that soft - rubber goods , and soft goods generally , deteriorate in keeping and finally become worthless . A ...
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... give native intelli- gence to those who lack it : - Taught or untaught , the dunce is still the same . Bear this in mind , and dissuade and refuse every one who has been seduced from his true calling in humbler life to embrace medicine ...
... give native intelli- gence to those who lack it : - Taught or untaught , the dunce is still the same . Bear this in mind , and dissuade and refuse every one who has been seduced from his true calling in humbler life to embrace medicine ...
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... , moreover , far easier to decline to take a case , make a visit , urge a plea , suggest a remedy , or give emergency instructions through the telephone than by an interview with a fallible messenger . If 22 THE PHYSICIAN HIMSELF.
... , moreover , far easier to decline to take a case , make a visit , urge a plea , suggest a remedy , or give emergency instructions through the telephone than by an interview with a fallible messenger . If 22 THE PHYSICIAN HIMSELF.
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... give you a chance to let him know you keep no books for transient office - patients . Such a sign will save you many a misunderstanding and many a dollar . Of course , you can good - naturedly omit its cash enforcement toward patients ...
... give you a chance to let him know you keep no books for transient office - patients . Such a sign will save you many a misunderstanding and many a dollar . Of course , you can good - naturedly omit its cash enforcement toward patients ...
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Page 202 - For never yet hath any one attained To such perfection, but that time, and place, And use, have brought addition to his knowledge; Or made correction, or admonished him, That he was ignorant of much which he Had thought he knew; or led him to reject What he had once esteemed of highest price.
Page 166 - O'er all those wide-extended plains Shines one eternal day; There God the Son forever reigns, And scatters night away. 4 No chilling winds, or poisonous breath, Can reach that healthful shore; Sickness and sorrow, pain and death, Are felt and feared no more.
Page 40 - Pygmies are pygmies still, though perched on Alps; And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Each man makes his own stature, builds himself : Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids ; Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall.
Page 403 - Do all the good you can, To all the people you can, In all the ways you can, As long as ever you can.
Page 213 - Be to their faults a little blind And to their virtues very kind.
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Page 353 - sequins," said a Venetian nobleman to a sculptor, "for a bust that cost you only ten days' labour."— " You forget," replied the artist, " that I have been " thirty years learning to make that bust in ten
Page 86 - A physician should never take charge of or prescribe for a patient who is under the care of another physician, except in an emergency, until after the other physician has relinquished the case or has been properly dismissed.
Page 2 - Life is a leaf of paper white Whereon each one of us may write His word or two, and then comes night. " Lo, time and space enough," we cry, " To write an epic ! " so we try Our nibs upon the edge, and die.
Page 309 - He who does not walk on exactly the same line with me, who diverges, if it be but the breadth of a straw, to the right or to the left, is an apostate and a traitor, and with him I will have nothing to do !' " Such servile following as this must be declined by every true student of nature.