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Quotes from On the Educational Value of the Medical Society — William Osler

1849–1919 Canada

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There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.

On the Educational Value of the Medical Society (1903)

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.

On the Educational Value of the Medical Society (1903)

There is no discredit, though there is at times much discomfort, in this everlasting perhaps with which we have to preface so much connected with the practice of our art. It is, as I said, inherent in the subject.

On the Educational Value of the Medical Society (1903)

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