To confess ignorance is often wiser than to beat about the bush with a hypothetical diagnosis.
More Quotes from William Osler:
We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.William Osler
Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others.
William Osler
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.
William Osler
It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded as the most trifling of his works.
William Osler
One finger in the throat and one in the rectum makes a good diagnostician.
William Osler
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. Often the best part of your work will have nothing to do with potions and powders, but with the exercise of an influence of the strong upon the weak, of the righteous upon the wicked, of the wise upon the foolish.
William Osler
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