Sir William Osler |
renowned practical joker. he was called " father of modern
medicine" and was one of the "big four" founding professors of John
Hopkins Hospital as the first Professor of Medicine and founder of the
medical service there. Osler created the first residency program for
training physician and he was the first to bring medical student lecture
out for bedside clinical training.
Osler spent a years in Trinity college in Ontario before deciding on a
career in medicine. He then enrolled at the Toronto Medical College for
two years. He received his M.D. degree from McGill University in Montreal in the year 1872. Osler went aboard to London, Berlin and Vienna for postgraduate study before he return to Canada in 1874 and joining the medical faculty at McGill. He created the first formalized journal club there. In 1884 he was appointed Chair of Clinical Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. In 1889 he accepted the position as the first physician-in-chief for the new John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland USA and, he was one of the first professors of medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine during 1893. His reputation increased rapidly as clinician, humanitarian and teacher. He presided over a rapidly expanding domain. Sixteen years later, Osler left for Oxford. In 1905 he was appointed to the Regius Chair of Medicine at Oxford, which he held until his death. He was also a Fellow of Christ Church, Oxford. Osler was created a baronet in the Coronation Honours List of 1911 for his many contributions to the field of medicine.
One of his greatest contribution in medicine field was insisting that student learned from observing and talking to patient and the establishment of medical residency. Osler's favourite saying was : "He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all." His best-known saying was "Listen to your patient, he is telling you the diagnosis," which emphasizes on the importance of taking a good history. At the age of 70 in the year 1919, Sir William Osler died during the Spanish influenza epidemic, while his wife Grace lived on for another 9 years but she failed to resist a series of stroke. They had two sons, one which died shortly after birth, the other named Edward Revere Osler was mortally wounded in combat in world wall I at the age of 21 and this caused Dr. Osler to be crushed emotionally by the loss. The moral value that i had learned for Sir William Osler is learning is a life long process..
Henry E. Sigerist
Henry E. Sigerist |
Sigerist published a journal, the Bulletin of the History of Medicine. He made contributions to health service organization. He expand greatly on our concepts of the functions of medicine, and redefined health in a manner which was later express by the World Health Organization. Sigerist's account of the evolution of the physician and his discussion of the role of the people in the fight for health provide important new insights into current realities, while his remarkable analysis of the genesis of national health insurance makes it possible to understand its continued absence in the United States. His thorough studies of the Soviet national health service opened new vistas in the promotion of health and prevention of disease and the development of team practice in health centers. During 1947 Sigerist resigned from his position and devote himself to write an eight-volume history of medicine but only one was published before his death in 1957. The moral value i had learned for Henry E. Sigerist is face difficulties with optimistic view.
Sir John Freind
Sir John Freind was born in 1675 and had gone through several walk of life as a scholar, physician and a chemist who advocated newtonian philosophy. He was conservative and act against the newly introduced practice of inoculating the small pox.