The mistakes of doctors are innumerable. They err as a rule out of optimism as to the treatment, and pessimism as to the — Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah
The mistakes of doctors are innumerable. They err as a rule out of optimism as to the treatment, and pessimism as to the — Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah
The mistakes of doctors are innumerable. They err as a rule out of optimism as to the treatment, and pessimism as to the — Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah
The mistakes of doctors are innumerable. They err as a rule out of optimism as to the treatment, and pessimism as to the — Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah
The mistakes of doctors are innumerable. They err as a rule out of optimism as to the treatment, and pessimism as to the — Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah
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The mistakes of doctors are innumerable. They err as a rule out of optimism as to the treatment, and pessimism as to the outcome.

— Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah
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