Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...market to the best advantage, she must understand enough of human nature to get along with an Irish maid one season, a Swedish maid a second season, and a Negro maid a third season. The preacher must know more than theology, he must know his congregation; the physician must know more than anatomy and physiology, he must know how to deal with the varying temperaments of his varying patients; the teacher must know more than his subject, he must know the minds of his pupils, for a Ph.D., does not suffice to make a successful teacher; the engineer must know...
Recently a play was produced in New York called "The Right to Strike". It tells of a physician who refuses for a time to go to the aid of a dying woman, because her husband is out on a railroad strike. The doctor claims that he, too, is on a "strike". In the end, of course, he gives in; but not until he has taught the strikers--and the audience--an important lesson; certain men, upon whom depends the immediate welfare of the community, have not the right to strike...
...America is full of doctors and nerves," says a French physician touring the United States. "I think there are more doctors in Seattle than in all of France," he continues. "I find the American people delightful, generous and interesting, but frightfully given to nerves. They tire their nerves and then rush to a doctor...
...sheer ignorance of the sanctity of their calling. Or it may be that damnable attitude which is marked throughout the whole American journalistic profession; refusal to take oneself, or what one is doing too seriously. Which is the reason I presume, why anyone attempting the duties of a physician, a lawyer, a banker, a plumber, or a clergyman, has the firm theory that he could edit a newspaper better than it is being edited, could write at least as well as anyone who is writing. The newspaper profession has no side, no hocus pocus of mystery, no grandiose flourish...
...firms who do a great deal of large building work. On the other hand, the architect in ordinary practice may feel assured of a reasonable remuneration and very often of pleasant relations with clients, because he meets them not when they are in trouble as does the lawyer or physician--but in the time of their prosperity. His study teaches him to appreciate the beautiful in all the arts, and he has an enjoyment and appreciation from travel in Europe or study in museums and galleries of this country which few laymen are likely to have. Most...