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    William Osler

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    One special advantage of the skeptical attitude of mind is that a man is never vexed to find that after all he has been in the wrong. ↗


    — William Osler

    #truth #attitude

    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 #know #more #much #patient

    Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants. ↗


    — William Osler

    #common #common sense #sense #soap #water

    The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease. ↗


    — William Osler

    #good #great #patient #physician #treats

    The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely. ↗


    — William Osler

    #much #seeing #value #wisely

    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

    #best #constituted #content #even #fragments

    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

    #become #communicate #expert #feel #five

    Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought. ↗


    — William Osler

    #given #grunt #look #nothing #say

    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

    #diseases #each #ends #life #old

    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

    #does #go #medicine #patients #sails






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    Did you know about William Osler?

    " His best-known saying was "Listen to your patient he is telling you the diagnosis" which emphasises the importance of taking a good history. The Fixed Period speech is included in the book of his collected addresses "Aequanimitas with other Addresses to Medical Students etc. Osler was a strong supporter of libraries and served on the library committees at most of the universities at which he taught and was a member of the Board of Curators of the Bodleian Library in Oxford.

    He has been called the "Father of modern medicine. Kelly Professor of Gynecology; and William H. " Osler was a multifaceted physician and individual functioning as a pathologist internist educator bibliophile historian author and renowned practical joker.

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