General Practice Quotes

• General practice is at least as difficult, if it is to be carried on well and successfully, as any special practice can be, and probably more so; for the G.P. has to live continually, as it were, with the results of his handiwork.

  Henry Howarth Bashford

  Practice, Special, Physicians

  The Corner of Harley Street Ch. 26

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• A judge's duty is to grant justice, but his practice is to delay it: even those judges who know their duty adhere to the general practice.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Practice, Justice, Judging

  "Characters", 1688.

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• It cannot be too often or too forcibly brought home to us that the hope of the profession is with the men who do its daily work in general practice.

  William Osler

  Home, Health, Men

  Sir William Osler (1985). “The educational essays”

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• The Persians are very fond of wine ... It is also their general practice to deliberate upon affairs of weight when they are drunk; and then in the morning, when they are sober, the decision to which they came the night before is put before them by the master of the house in which it was made; and if it is then approved they act on it; if not, they set it aside. Sometimes, however, they are sober at their first deliberations, but in this case they always reconsider the matter under the influence of wine.

  Herodotus

  Morning, Wine, Night

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• [On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and ... it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.

  Queen Victoria

  Drinking, Practice, Alcohol

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