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It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.
William Osler
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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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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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Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.
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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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The clean tongue, the clear head, and the bright eye are birthrights of each day.
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Beware of people who call you 'Doc.' They rarely pay their bills.
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The only way to treat the common cold is with contempt.
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Patients rarely die of the disease from which they suffer. Secondary or terminal infections are the real cause of death.
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No dreams, no visions, no delicious fantasies, no castles in the air, with which, as the old song so truly says, hearts are broken, heads are turned.
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The Scots are the backbone of Canada. They are all right in their three vital parts - head, heart and haggis.
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To do today's work well and not to bother about tomorrow is the secret of accomplishment
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I desire no other epitaph - no hurry about it, I may say - than the statement that I taught medical students in the wards, as I regard this as by far the most useful and important work I have been called upon to do.
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The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and beget.
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It cannot be too often or too forcibly brought home to us that the hope of the profession is with the men who do its daily work in general practice.
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The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.
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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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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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Without faith a man can do nothing with it all things are possible.
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Patients should have rest, food, fresh air, and exercise - the quadrangle of health.
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The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
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Medicine is learned by the bedside and not in the classroom. Let not your conceptions of disease come from words heard in the lecture room or read from the book. See, and then reason and compare and control. But see first.
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