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Physician

William Osler was a renowned Canadian physician, considered one of the founders of modern medical education. Born on July 12, 1849, he passed away on December 29, 1919. Osler made significant contributions to the fields of pathology, clinical medicine, and medical education.

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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.”

Should Looks Young Doctors Patient Pills Pastime

Book:The Quotable Osler

Source: The Quotable Osler

“Listen to your patient, he is telling you the diagnosis.”

Patient Diagnosis

Author:William Osler

“To have a group of cloistered clinicians away completely from the broad current of professional life would be bad for teacher and worse for student. The primary work of a professor of medicine in a medical school is in the wards, teaching his pupils how to deal with patients and their diseases.”

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Book:The educational essays

Source: The educational essays

“Care more for the individual patient than for the special features of the disease. . . . Put yourself in his place . . . The kindly word, the cheerful greeting, the sympathetic look - these the patient understands.”

Looks Care Individual Special Disease Patient Features Cheerful Sympathetic Greetings

Author:William Osler

“A physician who treats himself has a fool for a patient.”

Fool Treats Patient Physicians

Author:William Osler

“Patients should have rest, food, fresh air, and exercise - the quadrangle of health.”

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“Patients rarely die of the disease from which they suffer. Secondary or terminal infections are the real cause of death.”

Real Suffering Dies Causes Disease Patient Infection Terminal

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“Every patient you see is a lesson in much more than the malady from which he suffers.”

Suffering Lessons Patient Malady

Book:The Quotable Osler

Source: The Quotable Osler

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

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Author:William Osler

“It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.”

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Author:William Osler

“He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.”

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“Be calm and strong and patient. Meet failure and disappointment with courage. Rise superior to the trials of life, and never give in to hopelessness or despair. In danger, in adversity, cling to your principles and ideals. Aequanimitas!”

Life Giving Strong Principles Danger Failure Despair Ideals Adversity Patient Calm Disappointment Trials Superiors Hopelessness Never Give In

Author:William Osler

“It is not... That some people do not know what to do with truth when it is offered to them, But the tragic fate is to reach, after patient search, a condition of mind-blindness, in which. The truth is not recognized, though it stares you in the face.”

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Book:Osler's

Source: Osler's

About the Author

Born: July 12, 1849
Died: December 29, 1919
Known for: Physician
Quotes: 135

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The Quotable OslerRelated source material

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Aequanimitas, and Other Papers that Have Stood the Test of Time. [With an Introd. by Paul Dudley White]Related source material

Men and books: collected and reprinted from the Canadian Medical Association JournalRelated source material

A Way of LifeRelated source material

Bibliotheca Osleriana: A Catalogue of Books Illustrating the History of Medicine and ScienceRelated source material

The Treatment of diseaseRelated source material

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