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Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.

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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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Care more for the individual patient than for the special features of the disease. . . . Put yourself in his place . . . The kindly word, the cheerful greeting, the sympathetic look - these the patient understands.
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The young doctor should look about early for an avocation, a pastime, that will take him away from patients, pills, and potions.
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Throw away all ambition beyond that of doing the day's work well. The travelers on the road to success live in the present, heedless of taking thought for the morrow. Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your wildest ambition.
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To have a group of cloistered clinicians away completely from the broad current of professional life would be bad for teacher and worse for student. The primary work of a professor of medicine in a medical school is in the wards, teaching his pupils how to deal with patients and their diseases.
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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.
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The only way to treat the common cold is with contempt.
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The extraordinary development of modern science may be her undoing. Specialism, now a necessity, has fragmented the specialities themselves in a way that makes the outlook hazardous. The workers lose all sense of proportion in a maze of minutiae.
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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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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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When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them.
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Courage and cheerfulness will not only carry you over the rough places in life, but will enable you to bring comfort and help to the weak-hearted and will console you in the sad hours.
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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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The great minds, the great works transcend all limitations of time, of language, and of race, and the scholar can never feel initiated into the company of the elect until he can approach all of life's problems from the cosmopolitan standpoint.
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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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Laughter is the music of life.
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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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Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
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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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Advice is sought to confirm a position already taken.
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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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