William Osler Quotes

Canadian physician and co-founder of Johns Hopkins Hospital (1849–1919)

Sir William Osler, 1st Baronet (July 12, 1849 – December 29, 1919) was a Canadian physician. He has been called one of the greatest icons of modern medicine.

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Native Name: Sir William Osler

Alternative Names: Sir William • WO • Sir William Bart Osler

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Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

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

The future belongs to Science. More and more she will control the destinies of the nations. Already she has them in her crucible and on her balances.

We are here to add what we can to life,
not to get what we can from life

~William Osler~

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

Far too large a section of the treatment of disease is to-day controlled by the big manufacturing pharmacists, who have enslaved us in a plausible pseudo-science.