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Osler: Genius & Genesis of Modern Medicine

A brief self-directed study of Sir William Osler, M.D. (1849-1919), who defined modern therapeutic standards.

Medicine is a calling, not a business.

You are in this profession as a calling, not as a business; as a calling which exacts from you at every turn self-sacrifice, devotion, love and tenderness to your fellow-men.  Once you get down to a purely business level, your influence is gone and the true light of your life is dimmed.  You must work in the missionary spirit, with a breadth of charity that raises you far above the petty jealousies of life.

………..Sir William Osler

The Reserves of Life

St Mary’s Hospital Gazette 1907;13:95-8

 

 

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