The young practitioner : with practical hints and instructive suggestions as subsidiary aids for his guidance on entering into private practice : being modified selections from, with additions to, "The Physician Himself" / by Jukes de Styrap.

  • De Styrap, Jukes.
Date:
1890
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Credit: The young practitioner : with practical hints and instructive suggestions as subsidiary aids for his guidance on entering into private practice : being modified selections from, with additions to, "The Physician Himself" / by Jukes de Styrap. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    practitioner in his still earlier days, may legitimately and ap- propriately constitute a part of the artistic ornamentation of the consulting room—which, it is scarcely necessary to add, should be kept exceptionally neat and clean, and, as far as may be, so arranged as to more or less indicate a refined and skilled taste. At the same time, it may be well to sound a note of caution, lest, in later life, the successful practitioner should be tempted to an obtrusive display of the votive offerings of grateful patients—a proceeding which has ever been rightly condemned. Still more important to success will be the nature of the connexions you form in your early career; for by such is a young medical practitioner rightly and keenly judged. Let your acquaintance therefore be limited, as far as possible, to legitimate professional brethren and people of genuine worth ; and be careful to avoid associating with those who labour under a merited stigma, or are notably of immoral character, or whose hopes and ambitions have L een blighted by their own misconduct. At the same time, eschew _die_Jiat£lr]:iai:»_thje .^sniokin the billiard, and the^ gambling room—for, irrespective of other sound reasons for avoidance, no one of ordinary judgment and observa- tion ever conceives a better opinion of a professional man for fraternizing with him at such places : which, moreover, tend to a downward course, to blunt your finer sensibilities, to prove fatal to your professional aspirations, and event- ually blast your career—in simple language, will, sooner or later, ensure moral and professional suicide ! Be assured that moral rectitude alone will render your life happy, and enable you to successfully encounter unfriendly criticism and unscrupulous opponents.