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
That man can interrogate as well as observe nature was a lesson slowly learned in his evolution.
The most essential thing for happiness is the gift of friendship.
Beware of people who call you 'Doc.' They rarely pay their bills.
The only way to treat the common cold is with contempt.
What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity.
Happiness lies in the absorption in some vocation which satisfies the soul.
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.
A library represents the mind of its collector, fancies and foibles, strengths and weaknesses, prejudices and preferences.
Think not of the amount to be accomplished, the difficulties to be overcome, or the end to be attained, but set earnestly at the little task at your elbow, letting that be sufficient for the day.
It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded as the most trifling of his works.
Conservatism and old fogeyism are totally different things; the motto of one is "Prove all things and hold fast that which is good" and of the other "Prove nothing but hold fast that which is old."
Nothing is life is more wonderful than faith.
The true poetry of life: the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves and their joys, their sorrows and their griefs.