William osler and harvey williams cushing: Friendship around neurosurgery

William osler and harvey williams cushing: Friendship around neurosurgery

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William Osler was a mentor for the younger William Harvey Miscellaneous Eye Care Cushing and they intermingled careers and friendship for the rest of their lives.They shared a common interest in the anatomy and pathology of neurological disorders, and in the history of medicine.Their behavior was, however, sharply different: Osler was the revered physician, full of wisdom and good humor, and Cushing, the prestigious surgeon, in a perennial and successful struggle to improve neurosurgery and himself.Both became medical icons, one beloved, and the other admired, each praised at their death centennial Hoof Clippers and 150 birth anniversary, respectively.