William Osler Quotes
Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.
William Osler
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Humanity has but three great enemies: fever, famine, and war; of these by far the greatest, by far the most terrible, is fever.
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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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Every patient you see is a lesson in much more than the malady from which he suffers.
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Gentlemen, I have a confession to make. Half of what we have taught you is in error, and furthermore we cannot tell you which half it is
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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.
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As it can be maintained that all the great advances have come from men under forty, so the history of the world shows that a very large proportion of the evils may be traced to the sexagenarians, nearly all the great mistakes politically and socially, all of the worst poems, most of the bad pictures, a majority of the bad novels and not a few of the bad sermons and speeches.
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The young doctor should look about early for an avocation, a pastime, that will take him away from patients, pills, and potions.
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Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.
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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.
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Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents.
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There are three classes of human beings: men, women and women physicians.
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There are only two sorts of doctors; those who practise with their brains, and those who practise with their tongues.
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