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William Osler Quotes: It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.
         

It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.


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



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

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



Gentlemen, I have a confession to make. Half of what we have taught you is in error, and furthermore we cannot tell you which half it is

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The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head.



No man is really happy or safe without a hobby.

No man is really happy or safe without a hobby.



He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.

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.

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



The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest.

The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest.



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

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





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