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

William Osler Quotes

Canadian - Scientist July 12, 1849 - December 29, 1919

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

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

Great, Good, Medical

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability. - William Osler

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

Art, Science, Uncertainty

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

Sea, Medicine, Sails

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine. William Osler

Medicine, Physician, First

Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert. William Osler

Alone, Practice, Know

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 sea at all. William Osler

Sea, Medical, Study

There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs. William Osler

Truth, Man, Know

The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it. William Osler

Success, Step, First Step

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

Medicine, Physician, First

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

Life, Physician, Young

The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well. - William Osler

The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well. William Osler

Work, Today, Best

The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget. William Osler

Man, Natural, Two

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life. - William Osler

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life. William Osler

Life, Here, Add

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

Medical, Important, Know

Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants. William Osler

Best, Water, Common Sense

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely. William Osler

Experience, Value, Seeing

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

Man, Greatest, Animals

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language. William Osler

Art, Language, Men

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease. William Osler

Life, Law, Know

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

Wise, Thought, Speech

No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher. William Osler

Teacher, Successful, Bubble

No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition. William Osler

Best, Truth, Men

The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance. William Osler

Life, Teacher, Age

The future is today. William Osler

What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp? William Osler

Student, Fickle, Mistress

In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions. William Osler

Truth, Broken, Aim

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