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The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade a calling, not a business a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head.

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 very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
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Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
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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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The young doctor should look about early for an avocation, a pastime, that will take him away from patients, pills, and potions.
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Think not of the amount to be accomplished, the difficulties to be overcome, or the end to be attained, but set earnestly at the little task at your elbow, letting that be sufficient for the day.
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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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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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The great minds, the great works transcend all limitations of time, of language, and of race, and the scholar can never feel initiated into the company of the elect until he can approach all of life's problems from the cosmopolitan standpoint.
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To know just what has do be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.
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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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The higher the standard of education in a profession, the less marked will be the charlatanism.
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Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others.
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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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Now the way of life that I preach is a habit to be acquired gradually by long and steady repetition. It is the practice of living for the day only, and for the day's work.
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