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Harvey Cushing
(8 Apr 1869 - 7 Oct 1939)
American neurosurgeon who was a pioneer of neurosurgery and performed the first brain surgery in the U.S in 1902.
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Science Quotes by Harvey Cushing (3 quotes)
A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more than even the whole man—he must view the man in his world.
— Harvey Cushing
Attributed by Rene Dubos, Man Adapting (1965, 1980), Chap. 12, 342. Dubos introduces the quote with “is reported to have taught” and no other citation.
I would like to see the day when somebody would be appointed surgeon somewhere who had no hands, for the operative part is the least part of the work.
— Harvey Cushing
Letter to Dr Henry Christian (20 Nov 1911). Quoted in 'The Best Hope of All', Time (3 May 1963).
There is only one ultimate and effectual preventative for the maladies to which flesh is heir, and that is death.
— Harvey Cushing
'Medicine at the Crossroads', The Medical Career and Other Papers (1928, 1940), 94.
See also:
- 8 Apr - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Cushing's birth.
- Genius With a Scalpel: Harvey Cushing, by Justin F. Denzel. - book suggestion.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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