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A Twenty-Year Study

WILLIAM B. BEAN, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1963;111(4):476-482.

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Divide your attentions equally between books and men. The strength of the student of books is to sit still—two or three hours at a stretch—eating the heart out of a subject with pencil and note-book in hand, determined to master the details and intricacies, focusing all your energies on its difficulties. Get accustomed to test all sorts of book problems and statements for yourself, and take as little as possible on trust. The Hunterian "Do not think, but try" attitude of mind is the important one to cultivate. The question came up one day, when discussing the grooves left on the nails after fever, how long it took for the nail to grow out, from root to edge. A majority of the class had no further interest; a few looked it up in books; two men marked their nails at the root with nitrate of silver, and a few months . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
IOWA CITY

Department of Medicine and University Hospitals of the College of Medicine, State University of Iowa.

Footnotes
Received and accepted for publication Oct. 5, 1962.

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