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,
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.
Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents.
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.
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.
A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never!
Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity.
The higher the standard of education in a profession, the less marked will be the charlatanism.
No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.