William Osler Quotes & Sayings
31 most famous William Osler quotes and sayings (scientist). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“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.”
“He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.”
“Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.”
“The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.”
“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.”
“One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.”
“The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.”
“What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?”
“The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.”
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