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In these days when science is clearly in the saddle and when our knowledge of disease is advancing at a breathless pace, we are apt to forget that not all can ride and that he also serves who waits and who applies what the horseman discovers.
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Books are the most important tools of our craft when assembled in mass in our great medical libraries.
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Every patient, he said, provided two questions — firstly what can be learnt from him and secondly what can be done for him.
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A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man — he must view the man in his world.
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Born:
April 8, 1869
Died:
October 7, 1939
(aged 70)
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Harvey Williams Cushing was an American neurosurgeon. A pioneer of brain surgery, he was the first person to describe Cushing's disease. Together with Ernest Sachs, he is known as the "father of neurosurgery."
Known for:
The Life of Sir William Osler (1925)
Five Hundred Years of Medicine in Art
The Life of William Osler, V2
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