William osler quotes about work
William osler quotes about work.
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Here are some random quotes from Osler, ten for the day:
1. “Throw away all ambition beyond that of doing the day’s work well. The travelers on the road to success live in the present, heedless of taking thought for the morrow.
Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day’s work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your wildest ambition.”
Given the current popularity of “staying in the moment” and meditation, Osler was way ahead of his time.
2.
“Medicine is learned by the bedside and not in the classroom.
The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease
Let not your conceptions of disease come from the words heard in the lecture room or read from the book. See and then reason and compare and control. But see first.”
There is a danger that our learning is becoming more and more didactic, almost pre-Flexnerian!
Osler’s advice holds true.
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Or as Andrew Elder, our visiting professor likes to say, the bedside is where the patient is!
3. “A physician who treats himself has a fool for a patient.”
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