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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.
William Osler
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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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Every patient you see is a lesson in much more than the malady from which he suffers.
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It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.
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Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert.
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Without faith a man can do nothing with it all things are possible.
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The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
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Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
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In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.
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Patients should have rest, food, fresh air, and exercise - the quadrangle of health.
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Engrossed late and soon in professional cares, getting and spending, you may may so lay waste your powers that you may find, too late, with hearts given away, that t here is no place in your habit-stricken souls for those gentler influences which make your life worth living.
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Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others.
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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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