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The most essential thing for happiness is the gift of friendship.
William Osler
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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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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
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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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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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Humanity has but three great enemies: fever, famine, and war of these by far the greatest, by far the most terrible, is fever.
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No dreams, no visions, no delicious fantasies, no castles in the air, with which, as the old song so truly says, hearts are broken, heads are turned.
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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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That man can interrogate as well as observe nature was a lesson slowly learned in his evolution.
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He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.
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The good physician treats the disease the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
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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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Even in populous districts, the practice of medicine is a lonely road which winds up-hill all the way and a man may easily go astray and never reach the Delectable Mountains unless he early finds those shepherd guides of whom Bunyan tells, Knowledge, Experience, Watchful, and Sincere.
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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.
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The Scots are the backbone of Canada. They are all right in their three vital parts - head, heart and haggis.
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The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.
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Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents.
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There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.
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Patients should have rest, food, fresh air, and exercise - the quadrangle of health.
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The only way to treat the common cold is with contempt.
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Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.
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There are three classes of human beings: men, women and women physicians.
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