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Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
William Osler
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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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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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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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There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs.
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A physician who treats himself has a fool for a patient.
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The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest.
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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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No man is really happy or safe without a hobby.
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One special advantage of the skeptical attitude of mind is that a man is never vexed to find that after all he has been in the wrong.
William Osler
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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A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never!
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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.
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It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded as the most trifling of his works.
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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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Fed on the dry husks of facts, the human heart has a hidden want which science cannot supply.
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To confess ignorance is often wiser than to beat about the bush with a hypothetical diagnosis.
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In the Mortality Bills, pneumonia is an easy second, to tuberculosis indeed in many cities the death-rate is now higher and it has become, to use the phrase of Bunyan 'the captain of the men of death.'
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Taking a lady's hand gives her confidence in her physician.
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Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents.
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Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasures, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today ... The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty.
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The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade a calling, not a business a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head.
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