Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.
- Sir William Osler
- Sir William Osler
The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.
- Sir William Osler
- Sir William Osler
History taking and careful observation (not laboratory results) were the authority upon which differential diagnoses and initial treatment plans were built. Laboratory tests confirmed (or not) our hypotheses, not the other way around.
- Osler and the Way We Were Taught
- Osler and the Way We Were Taught
What makes one heroic?
To approach at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope.
To approach at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope.
وَزَكَرِيَّا إِذْ نَادَىٰ رَبَّهُ رَبِّ لَا تَذَرْنِي فَرْدًا
[سورة الأنبياء]
[سورة الأنبياء]
أَبُو القَاسِم مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عَبْدِ ٱلْمُطَّلِبِ الهَاشِمِي القُرَشّي الكِنَانِي