William Osler
William Osler
Sir William Osler, 1st Baronet, FRS, FRCPwas a Canadian physician and one of the four founding professors of Johns Hopkins Hospital. Osler created the first residency program for specialty training of physicians, and he was the first to bring medical students out of the lecture hall for bedside clinical training. He has frequently been described as the "Father of Modern Medicine". Osler was a person of many interests, who in addition to being a physician, was a bibliophile, historian, author,...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionDoctor
Date of Birth12 July 1849
CountryCanada
Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise...
The most essential thing for happiness is the gift of friendship.
Jaundice is the disease that your friends diagnose.
A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never!
Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity.
Fed on the dry husks of facts, the human heart has a hidden want which science cannot supply.
The higher the standard of education in a profession, the less marked will be the charlatanism.
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.
For the general practitioner a well-used library is one of the few correctives of the premature senility which is so apt to take him.
The Scots are the backbone of Canada. They are all right in their three vital parts - head, heart and haggis.
The only way to treat the common cold is with contempt.
Breathes there a man with soul so dead that it does not glow at the thought of what the men of his blood have done and suffered to make his country what it is? There is room, plenty of room, for proper pride of land and birth. What I inveigh against is a cursed spirit of intolerance, conceived in distrust and bred in ignorance, that makes the mental attitude perennially antagonistic, even bitterly antagonistic, to everything foreign, that subordinates everywhere the race to the nation, forgetting the higher claims of human brotherhood.
To do today's work well and not to bother about tomorrow is the secret of accomplishment
To know just what has do be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.