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
Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaints.
By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy-indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction.
No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.
Every patient you see is a lesson in much more than the malady from which he suffers.
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.
The great majority gave no signs one way or the other; like birth, their death was a sleep and a forgetting.
The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.
Advice is sought to confirm a position already taken.
Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents.
It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.
The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.
To confess ignorance is often wiser than to beat about the bush with a hypothetical diagnosis.
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.
We are all dietetic sinners; only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us; the balance goes to waste and loss of energy.