It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.
More Quotes by William Osler
Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.
The future is today.
We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.
The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.