Timothy Findley Quote

Accustomed to legerdemain and quick results, [the surgeon] is apt to regard the diagnosis and treatment of a headache, for example, as a trivial matter, forgetting that the internist may require hours of probing before discovering that what the patient needs is not a new pair of glasses but a different mother-in-law.


The Obligations of an Internist to a General Surgeon, Surgery, Volume 16, 1944


Accustomed to legerdemain and quick results, [the surgeon] is apt to regard the diagnosis and treatment of a headache, for example, as a trivial...

Accustomed to legerdemain and quick results, [the surgeon] is apt to regard the diagnosis and treatment of a headache, for example, as a trivial...

Accustomed to legerdemain and quick results, [the surgeon] is apt to regard the diagnosis and treatment of a headache, for example, as a trivial...

Accustomed to legerdemain and quick results, [the surgeon] is apt to regard the diagnosis and treatment of a headache, for example, as a trivial...