Shed, as you do your garments, your daily sins, whether of omission or commission, and you will wake … - William Osler

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To mis-quote is the very foundation of original style. The success of most writers is almost entirely due to continuous and courageous abuse of familiar misquotation.

William Osler

Shed, as you do your garments, your daily sins, whether of omission or commission, and you will wake a free man, with a new life.

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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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