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Every patient you see is a lesson in much more than the malady from which he suffers.
William Osler
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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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It is not... That some people do not know what to do with truth when it is offered to them, But the tragic fate is to reach, after patient search, a condition of mind-blindness, in which. The truth is not recognized, though it stares you in the face.
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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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When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them.
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The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
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The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
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If it were not for the great variability among individuals, medicine might as well be a science, not an art.
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Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasures, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today ... The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty.
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Happiness lies in the absorption in some vocation which satisfies the soul.
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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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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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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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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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Advice is sought to confirm a position already taken.
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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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Beware of people who call you 'Doc.' They rarely pay their bills.
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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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