The mistakes made by doctors are innumerable. They err habitually on the side of optimism as to treatment, of pessimism as to the outcome.

  • -- Samuel Butler 塞缪尔巴特勒

医生所犯的错误数不胜数。他们在治疗上习惯性地倾向于乐观,在结果上习惯性地倾向于悲观。

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We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.

我们喜欢安全:我们喜欢教皇在信仰问题上绝对正确,严肃的医生在道德问题上绝对正确,这样我们才能感到放心。

The doctor is to be feared more than the disease.

医生比疾病更可怕。