Through the years Osler's ideal of<unk> " has been criticised on the grounds that it excludes empathy, sympathy, or emotional resonance with patients. One of the strongest critiques was presented by Gerald Weissmann in his book The Woods Hole Cantata (1985). It had been published the previous year in Hospital Practice, as an essay entitled "Against<unk> ". Weissmann's assessment of Osler led him to conclude that Osler's advice held "the public tone of the academic snob". After reciting Osler's description of "imperturbability", Weissmann held the opinion that "the Oslerian view is not only devoid of passion, but also of joy". Osler however, did not that day in 1889 intend to give the graduating medical students comprehensive advice about how to practice medicine. His involvement was a relatively small part of a busy commencement programme, in which the principal honoree was the retiring professor of surgery, David Hayes Agnew ("Agnew day"). Charles S. Bryan later explains that Osler deliberately confined his remarks to two of the qualities the students would need in practice. Osler emphasized the need to balance "head" and "heart". In his interpretation the balance varies according to the nature of the task at hand and<unk>  is best understood as emotions appropriate to the circumstances rather than as indifference as suggested by the critiques. Daniel Sokol, medical ethics and law expert, reasons in the British Medical Journal in 2007, that whatever interpretation is made of<unk> , it "tackles head-on a timeless question: what makes a good doctor?".
Aequanimitas
Sleep paralysis
Azzopardi phenomenon
Piquerism
Maccabiah bridge collapse
Foldscope
Heart-hand syndromes
Stridor