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
In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.
The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
Listen to your patient, he is telling you the diagnosis,
The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head. Often the best part of your work will have nothing to do with potions and powders, but with the exercise of an influence of the strong upon the weak, of the righteous upon the wicked, of the wise upon the foolish.
The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.
Care more for the individual patient than for the special features of the disease. . . . Put yourself in his place . . . The kindly word, the cheerful greeting, the sympathetic look - these the patient understands.
There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.
The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.
Every patient you see is a lesson in much more than the malady from which he suffers.
Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents.
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.
In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.
Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.