The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

Quote by William Osler

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It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease...

It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease...

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the...

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the...

The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of...

The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of...

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals...

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals...

The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician...

The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician...

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the...

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the...

Avoid wine and women -- choose a freckly-faced girl for a wife; they are invariably...

Avoid wine and women -- choose a freckly-faced girl for a wife; they are invariably...

To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while...

To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while...

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for...

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for...

He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine...

He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine...

Courage and cheerfulness will not only carry you over the rough places in life, but...

Courage and cheerfulness will not only carry you over the rough places in life, but...

Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.

Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.

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

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

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

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

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to...

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to...

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

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

The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.

The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.

Cats are connoisseurs of comfort

Cats are connoisseurs of comfort

Ride the horse in the direction that it's going

Ride the horse in the direction that it's going

The cat has nine lives: three for playing, three for straying, three for staying

The cat has nine lives: three for playing, three for straying, three for staying

Even people who aren't sick may not have optimal wellness.

Even people who aren't sick may not have optimal wellness.