Medicine is learned by the bedside and not in the classroom. Let not your conceptions of disease come … - William Osler

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William Osler

Medicine is learned by the bedside and not in the classroom. Let not your conceptions of disease come from words heard in the lecture room or read from the book. See, and then reason and compare and control. But see first.

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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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