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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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Taking a lady's hand gives her confidence in her physician.
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Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert.
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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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Fed on the dry husks of facts, the human heart has a hidden want which science cannot supply.
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The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.
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Be calm and strong and patient. Meet failure and disappointment with courage. Rise superior to the trials of life, and never give in to hopelessness or despair. In danger, in adversity, cling to your principles and ideals. Aequanimitas!
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Medicine is learned by the bedside and not in the classroom. Let not your conceptions of disease come from words heard in the lecture room or read from the book. See, and then reason and compare and control. But see first.
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