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
Lesson
Patient
Lessons
Suffering
Much
Every
Malady
Suffers

More quotes by William Osler

Image
Shed, as you do your garments, your daily sins, whether of omission or commission, and you will wake a free man, with a new life.
William Osler
Image
The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
William Osler
Image
Faith is a most precious commodity, without which we should be very badly off.
William Osler
Image
The most essential thing for happiness is the gift of friendship.
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
Image
The higher education so much needed today is not given in the school, is not to be bought in the market place, but it has to be wrought out in each one of us for himself it is the silent influence of character on character.
William Osler
Image
The Scots are the backbone of Canada. They are all right in their three vital parts - head, heart and haggis.
William Osler
Image
There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.
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
Listen to your patient, he is telling you the diagnosis.
William Osler
Image
Now the way of life that I preach is a habit to be acquired gradually by long and steady repetition. It is the practice of living for the day only, and for the day's work.
William Osler
Image
What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
William Osler
Image
Advice is sought to confirm a position already taken.
William Osler
Image
If it were not for the great variability among individuals, medicine might as well be a science, not an art.
William Osler
Image
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.
William Osler
Image
The extraordinary development of modern science may be her undoing. Specialism, now a necessity, has fragmented the specialities themselves in a way that makes the outlook hazardous. The workers lose all sense of proportion in a maze of minutiae.
William Osler
Image
Engrossed late and soon in professional cares, getting and spending, you may may so lay waste your powers that you may find, too late, with hearts given away, that t here is no place in your habit-stricken souls for those gentler influences which make your life worth living.
William Osler
Image
Taking a lady's hand gives her confidence in her physician.
William Osler
Image
A library represents the mind of its collector, fancies and foibles, strengths and weaknesses, prejudices and preferences.
William Osler
Image
We are constantly misled by the ease with which our minds fall into the ruts of one or two experiences
William Osler