Osler's bedside library revisited—books for the 21st century:
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Sanjay A Pai and Roop D Gursahani. BMJ. 2005 Dec 17;
331(7530): 1482.
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Medical education is, in many
ways, incomplete. Although we are taught about the science of medicine, most
medical school curriculums lack formal teaching on the humanity of medicine.
Ethics, history, and philosophy are not taught formally in many schools.
William Osler was one of the earliest to realise this, and in 1904 he proposed
a bedside library for medical students.
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