Osler Physician Quotes & Sayings

Taking a lady's hand gives her confidence in her physician. — William Osler

We may indeed be justly proud of our apostolic succesion. THESE ARE OUR METHODS - to carefully observe the phenomena of life in all its stages , to cultivate reasoning faculty so as to be able to know the true from the false. THIS IS OUR WORK - to prevent disease, to relieve suffering and to heal the sick. — William Osler

The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest. — William Osler

In the first place, in the physician or surgeon no quality takes rank with imperturbability, and I propose for a few minutes to direct your attention to this essential bodily virtue. — William Osler

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease. — William Osler

The failure to cultivate the power of peaceful concentration is the greatest single cause of mental breakdown, the great physician William Osler told the students of Yale ... — Elisabeth Elliot

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine. — William Osler

The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases. — William Osler