Medicine is a science of uncertainty and the art of probability.

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"The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease."

- William Osler

Compassion

"To study medicine without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study medicine only from books is not to go to sea at all."

- William Osler

Learning

"In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs."

- William Osler

Leadership

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

- William Osler

Insight

"Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day’s work absorb your entire energies and satisfy your widest ambition."

- William Osler

Focus

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"Knowledge is that which benefits not that which is memorized."

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Knowledge

"I didnt get over 1300 walks without knowing the strike zone."

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Knowledge

"Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t."

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Knowledge

"The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows."

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Knowledge

"Knowledge is not power. The implementation of knowledge is power."

- Larry Winget

Knowledge