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

~William Osler

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To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

~William Osler

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Scientist

Born: July 12th, 1849

Died: December 29th, 1919

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