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There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.
William Osler
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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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Conservatism and old fogeyism are totally different things the motto of one is Prove all things and hold fast that which is good and of the other Prove nothing but hold fast that which is old.
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The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.
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Too many men slip early out of the habit of studious reading, and yet that is essential.
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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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To know just what has do be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.
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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.
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The true poetry of life: the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves and their joys, their sorrows and their griefs.
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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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There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.
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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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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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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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Patients rarely die of the disease from which they suffer. Secondary or terminal infections are the real cause of death.
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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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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.
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That man can interrogate as well as observe nature was a lesson slowly learned in his evolution.
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Patients should have rest, food, fresh air, and exercise - the quadrangle of health.
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The most essential thing for happiness is the gift of friendship.
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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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For the general practitioner a well-used library is one of the few correctives of the premature senility which is so apt to take him.
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