A GREAT OLD MESSAGE FROM WILLIAM OSLER TO MEDICAL STUDENTS Today we live in a conflicting world WHERE PROFIT AND LOSS MATTERS than life, of course in many occasions, India has many great Doctors and Paramedics serve the society with LIMITED POSSIBILITIES Unfortunately the society is incited by Media and press Today the Medical profession under scanner, our Medical education under vigilance and we and every Doctor certainly at unease with life, and above all we have a mushrooming of Medical colleges, with falling standards , I am always in contact with my committed medical students , who continue to be torch bearers to the future of medicine, and always optimistic they carry the spirit of the profession It is time to remember the life as it matters to any one Justice Osler wrote his own epitaph, “that I taught medical students in the ward” He can still teach us today.
William Osler was not just a great man of his times but speaks to us today in the dilemmas that we face about a way of practice and life. Despite having no modern diagnostics and relying only upon his eyes, his stethoscope, and a microscope, his approach to diagnosis and of dealing with patients remains fresh and energizing to anyone who would open his volumes and read his writings. Living within the transition years that gave way to a new order of the ethical hierarchy, he certainly reflects more the paternalism of the day, but there is no one who has undergone the scrutiny of years without blemish as has Sir William. Osler keenly recognized that much of the practical aspects of what he taught would be overthrown within a decade, but the way he practiced and lived and the practice of “virtue ethics” remains undiminished. To understand what Osler has to say to us today, 100 years later, is to listen to his own “way of life”:
I have three personal ideals. One, to do the day's work well and not to bother about tomorrow…. The second has been to act the Golden Rule, as far as in my lay, towards my professional brethren and towards the patients committed to my care … and the 3rd has been to cultivate such a measure of equanimity as would enable me to bear success with humility, the affection of my friends without pride, and to be ready when the day of sorrow and grief came to meet it with the courage befitting a man
Source - Can Osler teach us about 21st-century medical ethics?
Mark W. Millard, MD Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent). 2011 Jul; 24(3) PMC
Shared by Dr.T.V.Rao MD
William Osler was not just a great man of his times but speaks to us today in the dilemmas that we face about a way of practice and life. Despite having no modern diagnostics and relying only upon his eyes, his stethoscope, and a microscope, his approach to diagnosis and of dealing with patients remains fresh and energizing to anyone who would open his volumes and read his writings. Living within the transition years that gave way to a new order of the ethical hierarchy, he certainly reflects more the paternalism of the day, but there is no one who has undergone the scrutiny of years without blemish as has Sir William. Osler keenly recognized that much of the practical aspects of what he taught would be overthrown within a decade, but the way he practiced and lived and the practice of “virtue ethics” remains undiminished. To understand what Osler has to say to us today, 100 years later, is to listen to his own “way of life”:
I have three personal ideals. One, to do the day's work well and not to bother about tomorrow…. The second has been to act the Golden Rule, as far as in my lay, towards my professional brethren and towards the patients committed to my care … and the 3rd has been to cultivate such a measure of equanimity as would enable me to bear success with humility, the affection of my friends without pride, and to be ready when the day of sorrow and grief came to meet it with the courage befitting a man
Source - Can Osler teach us about 21st-century medical ethics?
Mark W. Millard, MD Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent). 2011 Jul; 24(3) PMC
Shared by Dr.T.V.Rao MD
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