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Patients should have rest, food, fresh air, and exercise - the quadrangle of health.
William Osler
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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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The good physician treats the disease the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
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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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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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What is patience but an equanimity which enables you to rise superior to the trials of life.
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Happiness lies in the absorption in some vocation which satisfies the soul.
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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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A library represents the mind of its collector, fancies and foibles, strengths and weaknesses, prejudices and preferences.
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Listen to your patient, he is telling you the diagnosis.
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Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaints.
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Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity.
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The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.
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Now of the difficulties bound up with the public in which we doctors work, I hesitate to speak in a mixed audience. Common sense in matters medical is rare, and is usually in inverse ratio to the degree of education.
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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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It is not as if our homeopathic brothers are asleep: far from it, they are awake - many of them at any rate - to the importance of the scientific study of disease.
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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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Beware of people who call you 'Doc.' They rarely pay their bills.
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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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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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