1. Always listen to the learner, try not to interrupt right away and pause before comment.

2. Only connect....  (EM Forster: 1897-1970)

3. "Feedback is a gift." (Emilia Benjamin, Jane Liebschutz)

4. I can either give you feedback that will make you feel good, or I can give you feedback that will make you a better clinician.  My job is to make you a better clinician.  (ML Boehler)

5. The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort.  The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.  (K. Patricia Cross: 1926-2023)

6. The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. (Plutarch: 46-120)

7. Keep the light of curiosity aflame.

8. A doctor who cannot take a good history and a patient who cannot give one are in danger of giving and receiving bad treatment. (Paul Dudley White, MD)

9. You can observe a lot just by watching. (Yogi Berra:1925-2015)

Oslerian Quotes - Sir William Osler: 1849-1919

10. We miss more by not seeing than by not knowing. 

11. Medicine is learned by the bedside and not in the classroom.

12. The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head.

13. To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.

14. The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.

15. Listen to the patient, he is telling you the diagnosis.

16. Remember... that every patient upon whom you wait will examine you critically and form an estimate of you by the way in which you conduct yourself at the bedside.  Skill and nicety in manipulation, in the simple act of feeling the pulse or in the performance of a minor operation will do more towards establishing confidence in you, than in a string of Diplomas, or the reputation of extensive hospital experience. 

17. The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

18. The master-word in medicine in work.

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19. When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven't.  (Thomas Edison: 1847-1931)

20. Being too certain--never being in doubt-- paradoxically results in lower-quality care through over-testing, premature conclusions & tunnel vision. (Renee Fox, JP Kassirer, Ronald Epstein)

21. Experts know the answers. Masters know the important questions.  Experts revel in what they know.  Masters revel in what they don't. (Hubert & Stuart Dreyfus)

Mahatma Gandhi Quotes 1869-1948

22. A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble. 

23. The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

24.  Be the change you are trying to create.

25. Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world, but to change ourselves.

26. It’s easy to stand with the crowd. It takes courage to stand alone.

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27. Our senses as diagnostic aids have been almost completely replaced by laboratory instruments and the consequences may sometimes be disastrous.  (Louis K. Diamond, MD 1902-1999)

28. The physical exam can be viewed as a coordinated series of lab tests, each component of which has its own limitations in sensitivity, specificity and predictive values.

29. Worth re-emphasizing is the importance of examining patients with direct visualization and palpation, not through the gown, which can mask findings (e.g. skin lesions, decrease tactile sensitivity and lead to false-positive findings (e.g. spurious "rales")).

30. The physical exam is an active, iterative process.  Try to focus your exam on the clinical context of the patient being examined.  Look, feel and listen FOR, not TO. 

31. Art consists of limitation.  The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.  (Gilbert K Chesterton 1874-1936)

32. Doctors must be wary of 'going with their gut' when what's in your gut is a strong emotion about a patient, even a positive one.  This species of affective bias can skew a physician's judgement and lead to misdiagnoses. (Jerome Groopman)

33. We don't see things as they are; we see things as we are.  (Anais Nin 1903-1977)

34. Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. (Albert Einstein 1879-1955)

35. The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.  (Elbert Hubbard 1856-1915)

36. Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which  they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing.  (Voltaire 1694-1778)

Francis Weld Peabody Weld 1881-1927

37. One of the essential qualities of the clinician is interest in humanity, for the secret of the care of the patient is in caring for the patient.

38. Medicine is not a trade to be learned, but a profession to be entered. It’s an ever-widening field that requires continued study & prolonged experience in close contact with the sick...

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39. These are duties of the physician: First... to heal his mind and to give help to himself before giving it to anyone else.  (Epitaph of an Athenian doctor 2 AD)

Confucius Quotes (551-479 BCE)

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40. I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

41. By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

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42. Having courage does not mean that we are unafraid. Having courage and showing courage means we face our fears.  We are able to say, ‘I have fallen, but I will get up.'  (Maya Angelou: 1928-2014)

43. People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.  (Theodore Roosevelt: 1858-1919)

44. Life's most urgent question is, "What are you doing for others?" (Martin Luther King, Jr.: 1928-1968)

45. If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.  If you want to be happy, practice compassion.  (Dalai Lama)

46. Learn to listen with your fingers. (Helen Taussig: 1898-1986)

47. What I want in my life is compassion, a flow between myself and others based on a mutual giving from the heart. (Marshall B. Rosenberg: 1934-2015)

48. Practice the 3 C's as much as possible: calmness, clarity and compassion.

49. Compassion is defined as the emotional response to another's pain or suffering, involving an authentic desire to help.

50. Without data, you're just another person with an opinion. (W. Edwards Deming: 1900-1993)

51. Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion. (Buddha: 6th-4th century BCE)