“The good physician treats the disease the great physician treats the patient who has the disease. ”
William Osler“To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.”
William Osler“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“The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.”
William Osler“We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.”
William Osler“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“There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.”
William Osler“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“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“The good physician treats the disease the great physician treats the patient who has the disease. ”
William Osler