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
To know just what has do be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.
Avoid wine and women - choose a freckly-faced girl for a wife; they are invariably more amiable.
What is patience but an equanimity which enables you to rise superior to the trials of life.
No dreams, no visions, no delicious fantasies, no castles in the air, with which, as the old song so truly says, hearts are broken, heads are turned.
One special advantage of the skeptical attitude of mind is that a man is never vexed to find that after all he has been in the wrong.
The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and beget.
Even in populous districts, the practice of medicine is a lonely road which winds up-hill all the way and a man may easily go astray and never reach the Delectable Mountains unless he early finds those shepherd guides of whom Bunyan tells, Knowledge, Experience, Watchful, and Sincere.
Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others.
The future belongs to Science. More and more she will control the destinies of the nations. Already she has them in her crucible and on her balances.
As it can be maintained that all the great advances have come from men under forty, so the history of the world shows that a very large proportion of the evils may be traced to the sexagenarians, nearly all the great mistakes politically and socially, all of the worst poems, most of the bad pictures, a majority of the bad novels and not a few of the bad sermons and speeches.
Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.
It is not as if our homeopathic brothers are asleep: far from it, they are awake - many of them at any rate - to the importance of the scientific study of disease.
Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.
Now of the difficulties bound up with the public in which we doctors work, I hesitate to speak in a mixed audience. Common sense in matters medical is rare, and is usually in inverse ratio to the degree of education.