“It is much more important to know what sort of patient has a disease than what sort of disease a patient has.” — William Osler Copy Share Image
The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine. — William Osler Copy Share Image
If it were not for the great variability among individuals, medicine might as well be a science, not an art. — William Osler Copy Share Image
The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases. — William Osler Copy Share Image
The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease. — William Osler Copy Share Image
One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine. — William Osler Copy Share Image
There are only two sorts of doctors; those who practise with their brains, and those who practise with their tongues. — William Osler Copy Share Image
The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the disease and once from the medicine. — William Osler Copy Share Image
Medicine is learned by the bedside and not in the classroom. Let not your conceptions of disease come from words heard in… — William Osler Copy Share Image
Now of the difficulties bound up with the public in which we doctors work, I hesitate to speak in a mixed audience.… — William Osler Copy Share Image
There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be… — William Osler Copy Share Image
Care more for the individual patient than for the special features of the disease. . . . Put yourself in his place… — William Osler Copy Share Image
It is not as if our homeopathic brothers are asleep: far from it, they are awake - many of them at any… — William Osler Copy Share Image
The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will… — William Osler Copy Share Image
To have a group of cloistered clinicians away completely from the broad current of professional life would be bad for teacher and… — William Osler Copy Share Image
The practice of medicine will be very much as you make it - to one a worry, a care, a perpetual annoyance;… — William Osler Copy Share Image
“We may indeed be justly proud of our apostolic succesion. THESE ARE OUR METHODS - to carefully observe the phenomena of life… — William Osler Copy Share Image
The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will… — William Osler Copy Share Image
Few diseases present greater difficulties in the way of diagnosis than malignant endocarditis, difficulties which in many cases are practi- cally insurmountable.… — William Osler Copy Share Image
We doctors have always been a simple trusting folk. Did we not believe Galen implicitly for 1500 years and Hippocrates for more than 2000? — William Osler Copy Share Image
A well-trained, sensible doctor is one of the most valuable assets of a community. — William Osler Copy Share Image
“Ask not what disease the person has, but rather what person the disease has” — William Osler Copy Share Image
The young doctor should look about early for an avocation, a pastime, that will take him away from patients, pills, and potions… — William Osler Copy Share Image
As it can be maintained that all the great advances have come from men under forty, so the history of the world shows that… — William Osler Copy Share
But whatever you do, take neither yourselves nor your fellow-creatures too seriously. There is tragedy enough in our daily routine, but there is room… — William Osler Copy Share
The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of tomorrow, are not fiery dragons interposed between the people… — William Osler Copy Share
Throw away all ambition beyond that of doing the day's work well. The travelers on the road to success live in the present, heedless… — William Osler Copy Share
The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it. — William Osler Copy Share
The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest. — William Osler Copy Share
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 Copy Share
In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions. — William Osler Copy Share
Shed, as you do your garments, your daily sins, whether of omission or commission, and you will wake a free man, with a new… — William Osler Copy Share
