William Osler
William Osler
Sir William Osler, 1st Baronet, FRS, FRCPwas a Canadian physician and one of the four founding professors of Johns Hopkins Hospital. Osler created the first residency program for specialty training of physicians, and he was the first to bring medical students out of the lecture hall for bedside clinical training. He has frequently been described as the "Father of Modern Medicine". Osler was a person of many interests, who in addition to being a physician, was a bibliophile, historian, author,...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionDoctor
Date of Birth12 July 1849
CountryCanada
There are only two sorts of doctors; those who practise with their brains, and those who practise with their tongues.
Every patient you see is a lesson in much more than the malady from which he suffers.
The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.
We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.
The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.
Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
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.
Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility.
The young doctor should look about early for an avocation, a pastime, that will take him away from patients, pills, and potions…
The practice of medicine will be very much as you make it - to one a worry, a care, a perpetual annoyance; to another, a daily job and a life of as much happiness and usefulness as can well fall to the lot of man, because it is a life of self-sacrifice and of countless opportunities to comfort and help the weak-hearted, and to raise up those that fall.
It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.
He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.
Gentlemen, I have a confession to make. Half of what we have taught you is in error, and furthermore we cannot tell you which half it is
The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest.