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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
William Osler
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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day absorb all your interest, energy and enthusiasm. The best preparation for tomorrow is to live today superbly well.
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The higher the standard of education in a profession, the less marked will be the charlatanism.
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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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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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We are all dietetic sinners only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us the balance goes to waste and loss of energy.
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No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.
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Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the true poetry of life.
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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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There are three classes of human beings: men, women and women physicians.
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Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
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The true poetry of life: the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves and their joys, their sorrows and their griefs.
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In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.
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Shed, as you do your garments, your daily sins, whether of omission or commission, and you will wake a free man, with a new life.
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A well-trained, sensible doctor is one of the most valuable assets of a community.
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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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Every patient you see is a lesson in much more than the malady from which he suffers.
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Patients should have rest, food, fresh air, and exercise - the quadrangle of health.
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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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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.
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The great majority gave no signs one way or the other like birth, their death was a sleep and a forgetting.
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