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J Med Biogr
November 2019
University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, SC, USA.
On 16 May 1919, Sir William Osler (1849-1919) gave what would be his last public address, 'The Old Humanities and the New Science,' to the Classical Association of which he was president. British educators were locked in a struggle between classics teachers, who wished to preserve their dominance in public schools and universities, and science teachers, who wanted more time in the curriculum. Osler had supported the science teachers' position three years earlier in his presidential address to the Association of Public School Science Masters.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAnn Fam Med
February 2015
Family and Community Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland.
William Osler is quoted as saying, "Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the true poetry of life-the poetry of the commonplace, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves and their joys, their sorrows and their griefs."(1) A family physician reflects how he continues to derive sustenance from having cared for a dying woman and her family over several home visits in his earliest years of private practice. The author's memory of these house calls continues to reinforce his love for medicine.
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July 1996
Division of General Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN 55905, USA.
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