Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others.
William Osler
The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest....
William Osler
We are all dietetic sinners; only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us; the balance goes to waste and loss of energy.
William Osler
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.
William Osler
He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.
William Osler
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.
William Osler
The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
William Osler
The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease
William Osler
It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.
William Osler
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
William Osler
Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others.
William Osler