“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
Patients should have rest, food, fresh air, and exercise - the quadrangle of health. — 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
Every patient you see is a lesson in much more than the malady from which he suffers. — William Osler Copy Share Image
What is patience but an equanimity which enables you to rise superior to the trials of life. — 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
To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not… — William Osler Copy Share Image
He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea… — William Osler Copy Share Image
Patients rarely die of the disease from which they suffer. Secondary or terminal infections are the real cause of death. — 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
It is not... That some people do not know what to do with truth when it is offered to them, But the… — 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
