Quote

Every patient you see is a lesson in much more than the malady from which he suffers.

William Osler

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
Physician
Professor
Sir William Osler
Sir William
WO
Suffering
Much
Every
Malady
Suffers
Lesson
Patient
Lessons

More quotes by William Osler

Image
The most essential thing for happiness is the gift of friendship.
William Osler
Image
The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
William Osler
Image
Courage and cheerfulness will not only carry you over the rough places in life, but will enable you to bring comfort and help to the weak-hearted and will console you in the sad hours.
William Osler
Image
No man is really happy or safe without a hobby.
William Osler
Image
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.
William Osler
Image
There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs.
William Osler
Image
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.
William Osler
Image
Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others.
William Osler
Image
Save the fleeting minute learn gracefully to dodge the bore.
William Osler
Image
Nature, the great Moloch, which exacts a frightful tax of human blood, sparing neither young nor old taking the child from the cradle, the mother from her babe, and the father from the family.
William Osler
Image
Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.
William Osler
Image
There are three classes of human beings: men, women and women physicians.
William Osler
Image
To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.
William Osler
Image
The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.
William Osler
Image
The higher the standard of education in a profession, the less marked will be the charlatanism.
William Osler
Image
Avoid wine and women - choose a freckly-faced girl for a wife they are invariably more amiable.
William Osler
Image
For the general practitioner a well-used library is one of the few correctives of the premature senility which is so apt to take him.
William Osler
Image
Nothing is life is more wonderful than faith.
William Osler
Image
In the Mortality Bills, pneumonia is an easy second, to tuberculosis indeed in many cities the death-rate is now higher and it has become, to use the phrase of Bunyan 'the captain of the men of death.'
William Osler
Image
The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.
William Osler