William Osler: saint in a “White man’s dominion”

William Osler: a life in medicine

his unwillingness to publish" (p. 102); he points out that misunderstandings "were Semmelweis's fault and no one else's" (p. 100). But there is no reason to think these judgements inaccurate or unfair; Semmelweis was, and remains, a difficult figure. If Loudon has introduced nothing new, he has recounted Semmelweis's part in the puerperal fever story with an admirable lack of sentimentality. Lo...

William Osler at 150.

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Sir William Osler revisited.

The basis of Sir William Osler's fame is elusive to almost all and the appropriateness of such recognition is questioned by many. His many contributions as a practitioner, teacher, writer, and scientist in medicine do not adequately explain his prominence 60 years following his death. It was his participation in the covenant of medicine and the special components of that relationship that may a...

Sir William Osler--contrasts between the saint-like legend and the rough-edged man.

Sir William Osler, the first physician-in-chief of the Johns Hopkins Hospital and later Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford, is judged by many to be the greatest clinician of the modern era. His life history of distinguished service to medicine and to society is well known. What is not so well known is his mischievous streak.