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  1. Medicine has suffered the full effects of the scientific outpouring of information. ... As a stopgap measure, medical schools have kept the total number of years constant, but have lengthened the per-week teaching load. Thus medical students at Harvard attend twice as many hours of classes per week as law or business students. Of necessity, this makes medical education a very passive business and deprives the student of the single most important thing he desperately needs to learn while at school -- how to initiate the educational process for himself, later on, when he is a practitioner.
    -- Michael Crichton (Five Patients, 1970)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #MichaelCrichton #MedicalEducation

    #Photography #Panorama #LavaFlow #Galapagos #Geology

  2. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
    -- H. L. Mencken

    #Wisdom #Quotes #HLMencken #Politics #Populism #Stupidity

    #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos