There is only one reason why men become addicted to drugs —… - Martin Henry Fischer

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There is only one reason why men become addicted to drugs — they are weak men. Only strong men are cured, and they cure themselves.

Martin Henry Fischer

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About Martin Henry Fischer

Martin Henry Fischer (10 November 1879 – 19 January 1962) was a German-born American physician and author. He is most famous for his teachings on the art and practice of medicine, including the famed quotation often recited on the first day of medical school, "A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession."

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Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof.

Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game. It is none of these — it's a state of mind.

Here's good advice for practice: go into partnership with nature; she does more than half the work and asks none of the fee.

There is only one reason why men become addicted to drugs — they are weak men. Only strong men are cured, and they cure themselves. - Martin Henry Fischer

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