William Osler Quotes
Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others.



The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well.



We are all dietetic sinners; only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us; the balance goes to waste and loss of energy.



The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.



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.



He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.



The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest....



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.



It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.



A physician who treats himself has a fool for a patient.



The search for static security - in the law and elsewhere - is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts



Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others.








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