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Too many men slip early out of the habit of studious reading, and yet that is essential.
William Osler
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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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No dreams, no visions, no delicious fantasies, no castles in the air, with which, as the old song so truly says, hearts are broken, heads are turned.
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To confess ignorance is often wiser than to beat about the bush with a hypothetical diagnosis.
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The higher education so much needed today is not given in the school, is not to be bought in the market place, but it has to be wrought out in each one of us for himself it is the silent influence of character on character.
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It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.
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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 seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.
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The good physician treats the disease the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
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Taking a lady's hand gives her confidence in her physician.
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He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.
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