Martin H. Fischer

The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty - not marble floors and foundations.

Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game. It is none of these - it's a state of mind.

None of the great discoveries was made by a 'specialist' or a 'researcher'.

In diagnosis think of the easy first.

First need in the reform of hospital management? That's easy! The death of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef.

Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof.