We doctors have always been a simple trusting folk. Did we not believe Galen implicitly for 1500 years … - William Osler

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In the wake of newly-alleged prisoner abuse this week, Senator John McCain said that continued mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is hurting the nation's image. Also hurting the nation's image: letting people drown when it rains.

William Osler

We doctors have always been a simple trusting folk. Did we not believe Galen implicitly for 1500 years and Hippocrates for more than 2000?

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The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head. Often the best part of your work will have nothing to do with potions and powders, but with the exercise of an influence of the strong upon the weak, of the righteous upon the wicked, of the wise upon the foolish.

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

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Listen to your patient, he is telling you the diagnosis.

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Care more for the individual patient than for the special features of the disease. . . . Put yourself in his place. . . The kindly word, the cheerful greeting, the sympathetic look - these the patient understands.

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It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.

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