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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Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.William Osler
Faith is a most precious commodity, without which we should be very badly off.
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To it, more than to anything else, I owe whatever success I have had -- to this power of settling down to the day's work and trying to do it to the best of one's ability, and letting the future take care of itself.
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What is patience but an equanimity which enables you to rise superior to the trials of life.
William Osler
There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the expression of a laughter -- loving spirit that defies analysis by the philosopher, which has nothing rigid or mechanical in it, and totally without social significance. Bubbling spontaneously from the heart of child or man.
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The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
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