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
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.
Save the fleeting minute; learn gracefully to dodge the bore.
Personally, I do not see in Canada it would be a feasible thing if any Ministry organized taking over both the Health and the Disease of the entire community... even in the most favourable circumstances... there would be that absence of competition and that sense of independence... I do not believe it would be good for the profession or good for the Public.
The higher education so much needed today is not given in the school, is not to be bought in the market place, but it has to be wrought out in each one of us for himself; it is the silent influence of character on character.
A physician who treats himself has a fool for a patient.
When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them.
There are no straight backs, no symmetrical faces, many wry noses, and no even legs. We are a crooked and perverse generation.
To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.
The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.
The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.