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William Osler
William Osler
Canadian Scientist
Born: Jul 12, 1849
Died: Dec 29, 1919
Become Disease Life Medicine Physician Truth
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The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease. William Osler
Good Great Physician Patient Disease Who Treats
The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely. William Osler
Experience Value Seeing Wisely Much
One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine. William Osler
Physician First Medicine Take Masses Educate Duties
Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants. William Osler
Best Water Sense Common Soap Common Sense
The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals. William Osler
Man Animals Medicine Distinguishes Feature Take Perhaps Greatest Which Desire
It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has. William Osler
Important Patient More Know Sort Than Disease Much Medical
He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all. William Osler
Medicine Books Uncharted Studies He Without Does Sails Go Patients Sea Who
The future is today. William Osler
Today Future
The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it. William Osler
Success First Become Step Towards First Step Occupation Very Any Interested
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
Life Old Physician Young Starts Disease Diseases Ends Each
The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism. William Osler
Ignorance Greater Dogmatism
The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow. William Osler
Wisdom Age Tomorrow Become Yesterday Philosophies Foolishness Absurd Next
Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought. William Osler
Wise Thought Nothing Say Given Conceal Look Grunt Speech
It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents. William Osler
Buy Books Easier Simpler Absorb Read Contents Than Them Much
To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all. William Osler
Sail Books Uncharted Study Without Go Disease Patients While Sea Medical Phenomena
To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle. William Osler
Alone Struggle Worth Made True Ideals Been Effort Certain
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
Alone You Communicate Smell Practice Become See Record Observe Feel Know Learn Hear Five Senses Expert Use Your
Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease. William Osler
Life Law Alike Abnormal Variability Faces Individuals Know React Conditions Behave Disease Same Which Bodies Two
There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta. William Osler
Humility More Clinical Conducive Than Disease
No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition. William Osler
Truth Best Human Being Men Nothing Fragments Must Never Partial Know Content Human Being Fruition Full Whole Even
What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp? William Osler
Fickle Lover Eludes Student Mistress Courting His Who Grasp Ever
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
Truth Man Important Medicine Must Since Know Most Familiar Diseases The Most Important Organs Fully Many

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