Identifier: glimpsesofmedica00thom (find matches)
Title: Glimpses of medical Europe
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Thompson, Ralph L. (Ralph Leroy), 1872-
Subjects: Medicine Medicine Education, Medical Travel
Publisher: Philadelphia, London, J.B. Lippincott company
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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he remembers what he istold. He can talk with you intelligentlyabout Tammany Hall or the Russian Duma.He knows who sings in grand opera in BuenosAyres, and what America is doing in thePhilippines. In regard to literature, one would thinkfrom the broad grasp he has on scientificwork (which work is now so massive that theordinary man does not attempt to keep up onmore than the head lines) that he would havetime for nothing else. But he can talk to youabout Dickens and Shakespeare (which hereads in the original), and Sherlock Holmesis one of his heroes. Dr. Pick is a single man. If you discussmarriage with him he will tell you, perhaps,that all women worthy of consideration areintelligent or beautiful and that either class isequally successful in distracting you from your 122 BERLIN work. He also says, that love Is an acutepsychosis that may always be given a goodprognosis. Notwithstanding these frivolousremarks Pick has a deep respect and regardfor women and he said to me seriously one
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evening: I am in my laboratory from sixin the morning till seven or eight at night.It would not be fair under those conditionsfor me to marry. Pick is an egotist. Personally I think aman who has made good, as Pick has madegood by sheer ability and work, has a right 123 MEDICAL EUROPE to be an egotist. A man who is better thanthe average man and does not know it, ordoesnt show it, is either a fool or a hypocrite;and in either event equally uninteresting. Bybeing an egotist I mean that Pick believes inhimself; in the high quality of his scientificwork; in his ability to teach pathology, andthat he brags about what he does. I do notmean that he has no consideration for others.On the contrary, he is one of the most altruis-tic men I know. He will give you the best hehas of knowledge and advice. He will savenothing for himself if it will help you. He isconsiderate of those beneath him. He takesoif his hat to the scrubwoman when he meetsher on the stairs. None of us will climb the four flig

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