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There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.
William Osler
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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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Few diseases present greater difficulties in the way of diagnosis than malignant endocarditis, difficulties which in many cases are practi- cally insurmountable. It is no disparagement to the many skilled physicians who have put their cases upon record to say that, in fully one-half the diagnosis was made post mortem.
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Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility.
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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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The uselessness of men above sixty years of age and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, in political, and in professional life, if as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age.
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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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Patients rarely die of the disease from which they suffer. Secondary or terminal infections are the real cause of death.
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A physician who treats himself has a fool for a patient.
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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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