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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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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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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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Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
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To know just what has do be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.
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It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.
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Few diseases present greater difficulties in the way of diagnosis than malignant endocarditis, difficulties which in many cases are practi- cally insurmountable. It is no disparagement to the many skilled physicians who have put their cases upon record to say that, in fully one-half the diagnosis was made post mortem.
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Without faith a man can do nothing with it all things are possible.
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The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and beget.
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