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A physician who treats himself has a fool for a patient.
William Osler
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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.
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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.
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Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others.
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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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Jaundice is the disease that your friends diagnose.
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Gentlemen, I have a confession to make. Half of what we have taught you is in error, and furthermore we cannot tell you which half it is
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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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Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.
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The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
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Listen to your patient, he is telling you the diagnosis.
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The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.
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It is not the delicate neurotic person who is prone to angina, but the robust, the vigorous in mind and body, the keen and ambitious man, the indicator of whose engines is always at full speed ahead.
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Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
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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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There are three classes of human beings: men, women and women physicians.
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No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.
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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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