外科格言与引语集萃（2）

------- 入行从事外科工作的心理准备

1、According to Paget`s figures, almost one third of any class of students made a mistake when they selected medicine for a profession, I am disposed to think that Paget`s figures would apply today.

------ J Chalmers Da Costa, 1863—1933

中文：有数据显示，任何一个班的学生中，几乎有1/3的学生是错误的选择了医学作为他们的职业，在我看来这个数据今天仍然适用。

点评：站在医学之门前的年轻学子们，请慎重抉择！

2、Most medical students are attracted to surgery, Its positive results please them. The bloody drama of the operation fascinates them, the dramatic force of some great operator stirs their admiration. They hear little of failures. They know nothing of the haunting anxieties, the keen disappointments, the baffling perplexities, the dread responsibilities, and the numerous self-reproaches.

------- J Chalmers Da Costa, 1863—1933

中文：大多数医学生都为外科手术所吸引, 良好的结局令人愉悦、手术血腥的剧情让他们着迷、那些手术巨匠的戏剧性表现让他们羡慕不已。可他们很少听到失败的消息，他们对那挥之不去的焦虑、强烈的失望、莫名其妙的困惑，更有可怕的责任和难以穷尽的自责一无所知。

点评：您喜欢半是英雄半狗熊的外科医生生涯吗？

3、You must always be students, learning and unlearning till your life`s end, and if, gentlemen. you are not prepared to follow your profession in this spirit, I implore you to leave its ranks and betake yourself to some third-class trade. 

------ Joseph Lister, 1827—1912

中文：你必须永远是学生，学习学习再学习相伴终生。如果，先生们，你不准备以这种精神执着于你的职业，我恳请你离开这个行业，转投于某些三流的行当吧。

4、The education of a doctor which goes on after his degree is, after all, the most important part of his education.

------- John Shaw Billings, 1838—1913

中文：毕业后的医生教育才是教育的最重要部分。

5、Once you start studying medicine you never get through with it.

------- Charles H Mayo,1865—1939

中文：一旦涉足医学的世界，你就永远无法弄透它。

6、The safest thing for a patient is to be in the hands of a man engaged in teaching medicine. In order to be a teacher of medicine the doctor must always be a student.

------- Charles H Mayo,1865—1939

中文：对一例病人来说，最安全的事情莫过于落在一名执着于医学带教的医生手上。因为医生要成为一名医学生的老师，他必须永远是一个名学生。

7、Reading papers is not the purpose of showing how much we know and what we are doing but is an opportunity to learn.

------- William J Mayo, 1861—1939

中文：阅读论文不是为了炫耀我们知道多少和在干嘛，而是一个学习的机会

8、The life of a medical student at a hospital can be pleasantly quiet if he choose to be lazy, or tiringly exciting if he choose otherwise.

------ Geiffrey Keynes, 1887—1982

中文：如果一名医学生选择懒惰，他可在医院安闲度日；相反，他也可选择成天累个半死却还兴奋不已的另类生活；

点评：尽管吾辈有警世恒言：“劝人学医，天打雷劈”，但总有“明知山有虎偏向虎山行”的勇士，生生不息地延续着外科医生这一支血脉的香火。