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Medical Quotes by William Osler
- The hardest conviction to get into the mind of a beginner is that the education upon which he is engaged is not a college course,…
- It is not... That some people do not know what to do with truth when it is offered to them, But the tragic fate is…
- To have a group of cloistered clinicians away completely from the broad current of professional life would be bad for teacher and worse for student.…
- It is not as if our homeopathic brothers are asleep: far from it, they are awake - many of them at any rate - to…
- The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
- It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.
- The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
- Now of the difficulties bound up with the public in which we doctors work, I hesitate to speak in a mixed audience. Common sense in…
- 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…
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- All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are… — Isaac Asimov
- Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The greatest evil is physical pain. — Saint Augustine
- The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing… — Edward Bach
- When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much. — Enid Bagnold
- Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood… — Anita Baker
- Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise,… — Saint Basil
- People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures. — Martha Beck
- The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction. — Alfred Adler
- Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established. — Wendell Berry
- Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient. — Ambrose Bierce
- Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. — Erma Bombeck