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

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TheSc ots are the backbone of Canada. They are all right in their three vital parts - head heart and haggis.

~ William Osier

It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded as the most trifling of his works.

~ William Osier

The natural man has only two primal passions: to get and to beget.

~ William Osier

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

~ William Osier