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

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

~William Osler~

We may indeed be justly proud of our apostolic succession. Schools and systems have flourished and gone, schools which have swayed for generations the thought of our guild, and systems that have died before their founders; the philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of to-morrow; through long ages which were slowly learning what we are hurrying to forget — amid all the changes and chances of twenty-five centuries, the profession has never lacked men who have lived up to these Greek ideals.

Common sense in matters medical is rare, and is usually in inverse ratio to the degree of education.