How much more medicine would trust to hygiene, and how much less to prescriptions, if the young doctors were the nurses of the sick and the nurses received the education of the doctors of our time!
Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “How much more medicine would trust to hygiene, and how much less to prescriptions, if the young doctors were the nurses…”
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Kropotkin critiques the medical education system, suggesting that practical experience would improve trust in hygiene over prescriptions.
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