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Phil\'s Cafe with Dr. Hofmann: "How private, for-profit healthcare in Canada is stealing your money and killing your neighbour"

Date: Thursday, March 24th
Time: 5-7 PM
Place: Thompson House Basement

See our event page for more details!



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Quote from Osler:
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" ; Quotation[7] = "No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition." ; Quotation[8] = "Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert." ; Quotation[9] = "One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine." ; Quotation[10] = "Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants." ; Quotation[11] = "The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well. " ; Quotation[12] = "The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals. " ; Quotation[13] = "The future is today." ; Quotation[14] = "The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease. " ; Quotation[15] = "The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism." ; Quotation[16] = "The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget. " ; Quotation[17] = "The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow. " ; Quotation[18] = "The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely. " ; Quotation[19] = "The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it. " ; Quotation[20] = "The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases." ; Quotation[21] = "There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs. " ; Quotation[22] = "There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta. " ; Quotation[23] = "There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language. " ; Quotation[24] = "To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle. " ; Quotation[25] = "Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease. " ; Quotation[26] = "We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it. " ; Quotation[27] = "What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp? " ; Quotation[28] = "Courage and cheerfulness will not only carry you over the rough places in life, but will enable you to bring comfort and help to the weak-hearted and will console you in the sad hours" ; Quotation[29] = "Every patient you see is a lesson in much more than the malady from which he suffers" ; Quotation[30] = "It goes without saying that no man can teach successfully who is not at the same time a student." ; Quotation[31] = "The killing vice of the young doctor is intellectual laziness."; Quotation[32] = "In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs."; Quotation[33] = "Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows."; Quotation[34] = "Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance."; Quotation[35] = "The hardest conviction to get into the mind of a beginner is that the education upon which he is engaged is not a college course, not a medical course, but a life course, for which the work of a few years under teachers is but a preparation."; Quotation[36] = "As no two faces, so no two cases are alike in all respects, and unfortunately it is not only the disease itself which is so varied, but the subjects themselves have peculiarities which modify its action."; Quotation[37] = "Undoubtedly the student tries to learn too much, and we teachers try to teach him too much; neither, perhaps, with great success."; Quotation[38] = "To cover the vast field of medicine in four years is an impossible task."; Quotation[39] = "The training of the medical school gives man his direction, points him the way, and furnishes him with a chart, fairly incomplete, for the voyage, but nothing more."; Quotation[40] = "There can be no doubt of the value to the physician of a very thorough training in methods and ways of organic chemistry."; Quotation[41] = "Let us emancipate the student, and give him time and opportunity for the cultivation of his mind, so that in his pupilage he shall not be a puppet in the hands of others, but rather a self-relying and reflecting being."; Quotation[42] = "Superfluity of lecturing causes ischial bursitis."; Quotation[43] = "Perfect happiness for student and teacher will come with the abolition of examinations, which are stumbling-blocks and rocks of offense in the pathway of the true student."; Quotation[44] = "The all-important matter is to get a breadth of view as early as possible, and this is difficult without travel."; Quotation[45] = "Advice is sought to confirm a position already taken."; Quotation[46] = "Happiness lies in the absorption in some vocation which satisfies the soul."; Quotation[47] = "The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business: a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head."; Quotation[48] = "Through your students and your disciples will come your greatest honour."; Quotation[49] = "May not man be the radium of the universe?"; var Q = Quotation.length; var whichQuotation=Math.round(Math.random()*(Q-1)); function showQuotation(){document.write(Quotation[whichQuotation]);} showQuotation(); document.writeln('
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