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CHARLES D. ARING, MD

Arch Intern Med. 1965;116(2):164-166.

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IT IS A PRIVILEGE of the practice of medicine to pursue the "dying ideal," so beautifully portrayed by Wilfred Trotter,¹ when he said that "an occupation for adults should allow of intellectual freedom, should give character as much chance as cleverness, and should be subject to the tonic of difficulty and the spice of danger." The variety of medicine and its texture are a considerable remove from the artificial neatness of lecture and textbook. Alert and enquiring minds are needed to foster expert and happy practice. In training for this occupation for adults, it is to be hoped that the student in his own good time will pass beyond the preliminary stage of precept and rule, when the going is monotonous and seems likely to be ever so.* Innumerable facts must be accumulated and integrated, as there is pieced together what eventually seems like nothing so much as a jigsaw puzzle. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
CINCINNATI

From the Department of Neurology of the University of Clincinnati College of Medicine and the Cincinnati General Hospital.

Footnotes
Received for publication Jan 25, 1965; accepted Feb 1.

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Some years ago in an editorial titled "Neurological Precepts" (Arch Neurol 4:587-589, 1961), I considered the development of good neurological habits. Good habits are not restricted by specialties and I have been urged (and had the urge) to re-edit these precepts for general consumption. Naturally they retain a neurological flavor.

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