Please Join Us at the
Book Launch for
Osler’s Bedside Library: Great Writers Who Inspired a Great Physician
Edited by Michael Lacombe and David Elpern
The Osler Library, McGill University
Montreal Quebec
Saturday Morning, October 24, 2009
The Osler Library is hosting a book signing for Osler’s Bedside Library (OBL) and would like to invite you to join us. There will be a few brief talks by some of the contributors and a light lunch will be served. A dinner for interested attendees will be organised as well.
Dave Elpern, who worked with Michael Lacombe on this volume, is one of the founders of Dermanities. We hope to have some dermatologists at this event.
Sir William Osler advised physicians to “let no day pass without contact with the best literature of the world. Before going to sleep,” he counseled, “read for half an hour” from a Bedside Library, beginning with ”a list of ten books with which you may make close friends.”
OBL is a companion and guide for contemporary readers. It features selections from Osler’s Canon, plus 20 more works that Osler frequently referred to. Each chapter contains selections from the classics plus commentary by a leading scholar in the medical humanities. Special reference is made to why the work is relevant to a physician’s education and practice.
If interested, please contact Chris Lyons, Assistant Librarian at the Osler Library or Dave Elpern for more information.
