General Practice Quotes

General practice is at least as difficult, if it is to be carried on well and successfully, as any special practice can be, and probably more so; for the G.P. has to live continually, as it were, with the results of his handiwork.

A judge's duty is to grant justice, but his practice is to delay it: even those judges who know their duty adhere to the general practice.

It cannot be too often or too forcibly brought home to us that the hope of the profession is with the men who do its daily work in general practice.

The Persians are very fond of wine ... It is also their general practice to deliberate upon affairs of weight when they are drunk; and then in the morning, when they are sober, the decision to which they came the night before is put before them by the master of the house in which it was made; and if it is then approved they act on it; if not, they set it aside. Sometimes, however, they are sober at their first deliberations, but in this case they always reconsider the matter under the influence of wine.

[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and ... it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.