Wm. Osler: The Continuing Education

Wm. Osler: The Continuing Education, by JoHN P. MCGOVERN and CHARLEs G. RoLAND, Springfield Illinois C. C. Thomas, 1969, pp. xvii, 365, illus., S13.75. A Way of Life, by WILLLIm OSLER with a foreword by JOHN P. MCGOVRN, Springfield, Illinois, C. C. Thomas, 1969, pp. ix, 41, $3.95. There is more need than ever before for a diffusion of the philosophy of Sir William Osler amongst the technologists of medicine. It is a need which medical students feel when, as they leave the university preclinical laboratories and enter the hospital wards for the first time, they encounter a dilemma in the countless possibilities of scientific investigation and laboratory controlled treatment, demanding a vigilance and fortitude which could easily submerge the personalities of both the patient and his doctor. Dr. W. Clarke Wescoe in his commentary on Sir William's address at the Faculty of Medicine, McGill University in January 1895 on 'Teaching and Thinking: The Two Functions of a Medical School' reflects on what Sir William's thoughts might be on our present situation.