We Have to Be Smart
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 21 August 2020
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
"Dr. William Osler was a giant of the medical field in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was also a fan of the Stoics. He was a deep reader who advised his students to read Shakespeare before bed to clear and refresh their minds. He was one of the founding members of Johns Hopkins University and impacted millions of lives through his research.
It was an incredible career that eventually ended, as Marcus Aurelius said of all doctors, on the same humble deathbed that Osler had spent tirelessly working around his whole life."
Find out the lesson that Dr. Osler's life and death has for all of us on today's Daily Stoic Podcast.
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| 0:55.8 | We have to be smart. Dr. William Osler was one of the giants of medicine in the late 19th |
| 1:01.5 | and 20th centuries. He was a fan of the stoics. He was a deep reader who advised his students |
| 1:07.0 | to read Shakespeare before bed to clear and refresh their minds. He was one of the founding |
| 1:11.7 | members of John Hopkins University and impacted millions of lives through his research. It |
| 1:17.4 | was an incredible career in medicine that eventually ended as Marcus Aurelius said of |
| 1:22.1 | all doctors on the same humble deathbed that Osler had spent tirelessly working around |
| 1:27.8 | his whole life. In Osler's case, almost 100 years ago, exactly, he caught the Spanish |
| 1:33.7 | flu, a deadly pandemic, not unlike the one we're experiencing now. I've been watching |
| 1:39.0 | this case for two months, he joked, and I'm sorry, I shall not see the post mortem. He |
| 1:44.0 | had fallen sick on September 29, 1919 by October 13, his fever was 102. Knowing he was marked |
| 1:51.9 | to die, he took the quoting Tennyson, one of the authors he looked to read, although |
| 1:56.4 | much to his wife's dismay, released me and restored me to the ground, he said over and |
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