Patrick Fiddes is a retired consultant physician in internal medicine and an associate professor of medicine at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. His long interest in medi...view morePatrick Fiddes is a retired consultant physician in internal medicine and an associate professor of medicine at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. His long interest in medicine’s history, its teaching and its ethics gave him cause to reappraise the novelty of William Osler’s contributions to medical education.view less