Osler’s A Way of Life and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations

407 Pages·2001·2.24 MB·English

by  Sir William Osler

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Shigeaki Hinohara, M.D., and Hisae Niki, M.A.
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69  AWayofLife 
 Aequanimitas 
 SirThomasBrowne 
 TheOldHumanitiesandtheNewScience 
 DoctorandNurse 
 TeacherandStudent 
 PhysicandPhysiciansasDepictedinPlato 
 TheLeavenofScience 
 TeachingandThinking 
 NurseandPatient 
 A(cid:12)erTwenty-FiveYears 
 BooksandMen 
 ChauvinisminMedicine 
 TheMaster-WordinMedicine 
 TheHospitalasaCollege 
 TheFixedPeriod 
 TheStudentLife 
 Unity,Peace,andConcord 
 L’envoi 
 Man’sRedemptionofMan 
Bed-SideLibraryforMedicalStudents 
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69 SirWilliamOsler(–)continuestobeaniconforthemedicalprofes-
sion.Hefollowedacareerofacceleratingexcellence,a(cid:12)erhisgraduationfrom
McGillUniversity,firstinCanada,thenintheUnitedStates,andfinallyinGreat
Britain.Inparticular,atJohnsHopkinsUniversityinBaltimorehismedicalex-
pertisemadehimaleaderoftheprofessionandthemostsought-a(cid:12)erconsultant
in North America. He and his colleagues there perfected methods of medical
educationthatcontinuetobetheworkingmodelmorethanacenturylater.Dr.
Hinohara’sbriefchronologyofOsler’scareersuccinctlyepitomizeshisremark-
ablelife.Osler’sinfluencespreadrapidlythroughhismanywritings,innovative
teaching,andwayoflife.Hismedicaltext,ThePrinciplesandPracticeofMedi-
cine (first edition, ), became the standard for the English-speaking world
and,throughtranslations,farbeyond.Itwasthisfirsteditionthatinspiredthe
creation of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. But today it is his
nonscientificbooksandarticlesthatcontinuetoberead,enjoyed,ando(cid:12)times
toinspire:hismessageisthepracticalartofliving.Oneofhiscardinalmessages
istheprimacyofbeinghumane,inone’slifeandone’spatient-centeredmedical
practice.Thepractical,everydayutilityofhisinsightandexamplereachesbe-
yondthepracticeofmedicineandholdsvalueforallwhoinvestigatehiswords.
AnditisOsler’sessaysthatthisbookcelebrates.Itdoessobypresentingthem
anewtothereadingpublic.Butmuchmorethanthat,italsoclarifiesthenumer-
ous literary allusions and metaphors that, a century and more a(cid:12)er they were
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