Letter to W.R. (State Board of Education Boyd, approximately January 22, 1915
- CA OSLER P417-3-3-119-033
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- approximately January 22, 1915
Part of Harvey Cushing Fonds
Letter to W. R. Boyd (State Board of Education) from William Osler, 13, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Gives his opinion on the way to manage work in a type of hospital closely associated with a University. In that case, it is better to have the practice confined entirely to the members of the staff. Explains that it creates a hopeless confusion to have half a dozen men in attendance whose ways of work are different. Allusion to the new tendency in the fresh graduate to aspire to become a surgical Mayo, which becomes a difficulty. For everyone's sake, it is better to develop a few really distinguished men in the departments than to encourage a wholesale mediocrity.
Osler, William, Sir, 1849-1919