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William Osler

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The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.


— William Osler


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There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.


— William Osler


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What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?


— William Osler


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In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.


— William Osler


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


— William Osler


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The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.


— William Osler


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The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.


— William Osler


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There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs.


— William Osler


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To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.


— William Osler


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Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.


— William Osler


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Did you know about William Osler?

" His best-known saying was "Listen to your patient he is telling you the diagnosis" which emphasises the importance of taking a good history. The Fixed Period speech is included in the book of his collected addresses "Aequanimitas with other Addresses to Medical Students etc. Osler was a strong supporter of libraries and served on the library committees at most of the universities at which he taught and was a member of the Board of Curators of the Bodleian Library in Oxford.

He has been called the "Father of modern medicine. Kelly Professor of Gynecology; and William H. " Osler was a multifaceted physician and individual functioning as a pathologist internist educator bibliophile historian author and renowned practical joker.

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