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The good physician treats the disease the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
William Osler
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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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The great minds, the great works transcend all limitations of time, of language, and of race, and the scholar can never feel initiated into the company of the elect until he can approach all of life's problems from the cosmopolitan standpoint.
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Fed on the dry husks of facts, the human heart has a hidden want which science cannot supply.
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Now of the difficulties bound up with the public in which we doctors work, I hesitate to speak in a mixed audience. Common sense in matters medical is rare, and is usually in inverse ratio to the degree of education.
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To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.
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Courage and cheerfulness will not only carry you over the rough places in life, but will enable you to bring comfort and help to the weak-hearted and will console you in the sad hours.
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In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.
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Happiness lies in the absorption in some vocation which satisfies the soul.
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Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.
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Without faith a man can do nothing with it all things are possible.
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A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never!
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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.
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The uselessness of men above sixty years of age and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, in political, and in professional life, if as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age.
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It is not the delicate neurotic person who is prone to angina, but the robust, the vigorous in mind and body, the keen and ambitious man, the indicator of whose engines is always at full speed ahead.
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Care more for the individual patient than for the special features of the disease. . . . Put yourself in his place . . . The kindly word, the cheerful greeting, the sympathetic look - these the patient understands.
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