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 good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
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.
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.
In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.
Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.
There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the expression of a laughter - loving spirit that defies analysis by the philosopher, which has nothing rigid or mechanical in it, and totally without social significance. Bubbling spontaneously from the heart of child or man. Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.
He who knows syphilis knows medicine
The most essential thing for happiness is the gift of friendship.
Jaundice is the disease that your friends diagnose.