One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
From William Osler
In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.
It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.
The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.
We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.
No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.
There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.
The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert.
No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.
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