Oslerism
Sir William Osler (1849–1919) is considered the father of modern medicine. These aphorisms continue to inspire physicians worldwide — a tradition Dr. Rana has long championed at the bedside.
Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
Aphorisms (1950)
The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
The Life of Sir William Osler (1925)
A physician who treats himself has a fool for a patient.
Aphorisms (1950)
Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility.
Aphorisms (1950)
To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals — this alone is worth the struggle.
Aphorisms (1950)
One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
Aphorisms (1950)
Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.
Aphorisms (1950)
The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
Aequanimitas, 'Chauvinism in Medicine' (1914)
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.
On the Educational Value of the Medical Society (1903)
There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation.
On the Educational Value of the Medical Society (1903)
To study the phenomenon of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.
Books and Men (1901)
Common sense in matters medical is rare, and is usually in inverse ratio to the degree of education.
Teaching and Thinking (1895)
No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
The Student Life (1905)
The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well.
Lifetime Speaker's Encyclopedia (1962)
We are here to add what we can to, not to get what we can from, Life.
The Life of Sir William Osler (1925)
Humanity has but three great enemies: fever, famine, and war; of these by far the greatest, by far the most terrible, is fever.
The Life of Sir William Osler (1925)
The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next.
Chauvinism in Medicine (1902)
The whole art of medicine is in observation.
The Hospital as a College, Aequanimitas (1914)
Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone can you become expert.
Johns Hopkins Bulletin (1919)
We miss more by not seeing than we do by not knowing.
quoting William Osler (1926)
Medicine is learned by the bedside and not in the classroom.
Johns Hopkins Bulletin (1919)
By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy.
Aequanimitas (1914)
One special advantage of the skeptical attitude of mind is that a man is never vexed to find that after all he has been in the wrong.
The Treatment of Disease (1909)
To serve the art of medicine as it should be served, one must love his fellow man.
Modern Medicine (1907)
The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest.
Address at Johns Hopkins Hospital (1897)