The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head.
William Osler
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The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.
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