title: A is for aphorism--'medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get [fed up with] one, I spend the night with the other.'.
abstract: 'I feel more confident and more satisfied with myself when I reflect that I have two professions and not one. Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get tired of one I spend the night with the other. Though it is irregular, it is less boring this way, and besides, neither of them loses anything through my infidelity.'
authors.affiliation: MBBS, Dip Med Sc, FRACGP, G Cert Ed Studies, MSc, Department of General Practice, The University of Sydney, New South Wales.
authors.forename: Chee
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Koh
mesh_terms: D001045:Aphorisms and Proverbs as Topic; D002321:Career Choice; D006801:Humans; D008091:Literature; D008511:Medicine; D009146:Music