William Osler Health Quotations

Beware of people who call you 'Doc.' They rarely pay their bills.

A well-trained, sensible doctor is one of the most valuable assets of a community.

The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.

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.

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

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

The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the disease and once from the medicine.