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If it were not for the great variability among individuals, medicine might as well be a science, not an art.
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 hardest conviction to get into the mind of a beginner is that the education upon which he is engaged is not a college course, not a medical course, but a life course, for which the work of a few years under teachers is but a preparation.
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But whatever you do, take neither yourselves nor your fellow-creatures too seriously. There is tragedy enough in our daily routine, but there is room too for a keen sense of the absurdities and incongruities of life, and in the shifting panorama no one sees better than the doctor the perennial sameness of men’s ways.
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It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded as the most trifling of his works.
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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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A library represents the mind of its collector, fancies and foibles, strengths and weaknesses, prejudices and preferences.
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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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The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
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The good physician treats the disease the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
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What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
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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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To do today's work well and not to bother about tomorrow is the secret of accomplishment
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Nothing is life is more wonderful than faith.
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The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.
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