Abraham Flexner Quote

The physician is constantly in contact with disease processes that he is unable to correlate with the accompanying structural modifications. Occasionally the surgeon throws a stream of light upon such a situation; too often all is dark until the autopsy reveals the truth.


Medical Education in the United States and Canada: A Report to the - Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching - Bulletin 4 (p. 66), The Carnegie Foundation. 1910


The physician is constantly in contact with disease processes that he is unable to correlate with the accompanying structural modifications....

The physician is constantly in contact with disease processes that he is unable to correlate with the accompanying structural modifications....

The physician is constantly in contact with disease processes that he is unable to correlate with the accompanying structural modifications....

The physician is constantly in contact with disease processes that he is unable to correlate with the accompanying structural modifications....