Henry E. Sigerist Quote

Ignorance is more immediately fatal in surgery than in medicine, or rather, mistakes are more easily apparent to the layman.


A History of Medicine (Volume 2), Chapter III, Section 1 (p. 203)


Ignorance is more immediately fatal in surgery than in medicine, or rather, mistakes are more easily apparent to the layman.

Ignorance is more immediately fatal in surgery than in medicine, or rather, mistakes are more easily apparent to the layman.

Ignorance is more immediately fatal in surgery than in medicine, or rather, mistakes are more easily apparent to the layman.

Ignorance is more immediately fatal in surgery than in medicine, or rather, mistakes are more easily apparent to the layman.