William Osler Quotes About Health

Quotes about: Health

• 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

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

  William Osler

  Health, Medicine, Disease

• 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 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  William Osler

  Health, People, Pay

• 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”

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