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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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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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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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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.
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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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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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Happiness lies in the absorption in some vocation which satisfies the soul.
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The very first step toward success in any occupation is to become interested in it. Locke put this in a very happy way when he said, give a pupil a relish of knowledge and you put life into his work.
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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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Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.
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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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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 doctor should look about early for an avocation, a pastime, that will take him away from patients, pills, and potions.
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Nothing is life is more wonderful than faith.
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By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy-indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction.
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Without faith a man can do nothing with it all things are possible.
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The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
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The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
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He who knows syphilis knows medicine
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Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.
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Save the fleeting minute learn gracefully to dodge the bore.
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