May 23Sir William Osler (1849 –1919) was a Canadian physician and one of the founding professors of Johns Hopkins Hospital. He created the world's 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". The following statements are attributed to him.
"The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has it".
“The first duty of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine".
"It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has".
"Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability".
"The greater the ignorance, the greater the dogma".
"Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your senses. Learn to see, to hear, to feel, to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert".
"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".
"The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow".
"To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle".
"Look wise, say nothing, and grunt... Speech was given to conceal thought".
"It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents".
:The person who takes medicines must recover twice; once from the disease and once from the medicine."
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