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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 clean tongue, the clear head, and the bright eye are birthrights of each day.
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The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
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It is not... That some people do not know what to do with truth when it is offered to them, But the tragic fate is to reach, after patient search, a condition of mind-blindness, in which. The truth is not recognized, though it stares you in the face.
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He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.
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We doctors have always been a simple trusting folk. Did we not believe Galen implicitly for 1500 years and Hippocrates for more than 2000?
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Advice is sought to confirm a position already taken.
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Taking a lady's hand gives her confidence in her physician.
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The young doctor should look about early for an avocation, a pastime, that will take him away from patients, pills, and potions.
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The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.
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The only way to treat the common cold is with contempt.
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Few diseases present greater difficulties in the way of diagnosis than malignant endocarditis, difficulties which in many cases are practi- cally insurmountable. It is no disparagement to the many skilled physicians who have put their cases upon record to say that, in fully one-half the diagnosis was made post mortem.
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Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
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It is not as if our homeopathic brothers are asleep: far from it, they are awake - many of them at any rate - to the importance of the scientific study of disease.
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Think not of the amount to be accomplished, the difficulties to be overcome, or the end to be attained, but set earnestly at the little task at your elbow, letting that be sufficient for the day.
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