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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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Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others.
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To it, more than to anything else, I owe whatever success I have had - to this power of settling down to the day's work and trying to do it to the best of one's ability, and letting the future take care of itself.
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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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