Maître à penser is a French language phrase, denoting a teacher whom one chooses, in order to learn not just a set of facts or point of view, but a way of thinking. It translates literally as "master for thinking"
"Internal medicine's boundaries were indistinct from the beginning. Dermatology, neurology, paediatrics, and psychiatry had already organised by 1885, when Osler and six other generalist-consultants met in New York City to form the Association of American Physicians. Osler advanced their cause by writing an encyclopaedic textbook, The Principles and Practice of Medicine (1892), which made him famous throughout the English-speaking world. In 1897, addressing the New York Academy of Medicine on “the importance of internal medicine as a vocation”, Osler observed that “its cultivators cannot be called specialists, but bear without reproach the good old name physician: the physician proper”, telling his audience that “the opportunities are still great, that the harvest truly is plenteous, and the labourers scarcely sufficient to meet the demand”. The first seven or eight decades of the 20th century proved him right.."
"Internal medicine's boundaries were indistinct from the beginning. Dermatology, neurology, paediatrics, and psychiatry had already organised by 1885, when Osler and six other generalist-consultants met in New York City to form the Association of American Physicians. Osler advanced their cause by writing an encyclopaedic textbook, The Principles and Practice of Medicine (1892), which made him famous throughout the English-speaking world. In 1897, addressing the New York Academy of Medicine on “the importance of internal medicine as a vocation”, Osler observed that “its cultivators cannot be called specialists, but bear without reproach the good old name physician: the physician proper”, telling his audience that “the opportunities are still great, that the harvest truly is plenteous, and the labourers scarcely sufficient to meet the demand”. The first seven or eight decades of the 20th century proved him right.."
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