The extraordinary development of modern science may be her undoing. Specialism, now a necessity, has fragmented the specialities themselves in a way that makes the outlook hazardous. The workers lose all sense of proportion in a maze of minutiae.
William OslerThe young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.
William OslerOne of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
William Osler