William Osier Quotes and Quotations
TheSc ots are the backbone of Canada. They are all right in their three vital parts - head, heart and haggis. 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. The natural man has only two primal passions: to get and to beget. It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has. The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals. One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine. In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs. The natural man has only two primal passions - to get and beget. Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought. Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.
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