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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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But whatever you do, take neither yourselves nor your fellow-creatures too seriously. There is tragedy enough in our daily routine, but there is room too for a keen sense of the absurdities and incongruities of life, and in the shifting panorama no one sees better than the doctor the perennial sameness of men’s ways.
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The great majority gave no signs one way or the other like birth, their death was a sleep and a forgetting.
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Be calm and strong and patient. Meet failure and disappointment with courage. Rise superior to the trials of life, and never give in to hopelessness or despair. In danger, in adversity, cling to your principles and ideals. Aequanimitas!
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The higher the standard of education in a profession, the less marked will be the charlatanism.
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Avoid wine and women - choose a freckly-faced girl for a wife they are invariably more amiable.
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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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The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles.
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The higher education so much needed today is not given in the school, is not to be bought in the market place, but it has to be wrought out in each one of us for himself it is the silent influence of character on character.
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