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William Osler Quotes about Health

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

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
Health, Practice Of Medicine, Important

The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the disease and once from the medicine.

William Osler
Health, Medicine, Disease

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

William Osler
Education, Healing, Health
In Aphorisms from his Bedside Teachings (1961) p. 105

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, Health, Law
William Osler (1927). “Aequanimitas”, p.189, Ravenio Books

It is not... That some people do not know what to do with truth when it is offered to them, But the tragic fate is to reach, after patient search, a condition of mind-blindness, in which. The truth is not recognized, though it stares you in the face.

William Osler
Health, Fate, Medicine
Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.337, Duke University Press

Beware of people who call you 'Doc.' They rarely pay their bills.

William Osler
Health, People, Pay

A well-trained, sensible doctor is one of the most valuable assets of a community.

William Osler
Health, Doctors, Community
William Osler (1927). “Aequanimitas”, p.162, Ravenio Books

It cannot be too often or too forcibly brought home to us that the hope of the profession is with the men who do its daily work in general practice.

William Osler
Home, Health, Men
Sir William Osler (1985). “The educational essays”

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

William Osler
Health, Exercise, Animal
In H. Cushing Life of Sir William Osler (1925) vol. 1, ch. 14

Personally, I do not see in Canada it would be a feasible thing if any Ministry organized taking over both the Health and the Disease of the entire community... even in the most favourable circumstances... there would be that absence of competition and that sense of independence... I do not believe it would be good for the profession or good for the Public.

William Osler
Believe, Health, Community

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