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I am troubled by present-day society’s zealous identification of past wrongs by looking at historic figures through the lens of our present-day values. Turns out our saint Osler has demons. Do we risk negating all the good he contributed to medical practice by publicly defrocking him? That’s a clear risk in today’s black-or-white court of public opinion. Can we simply accept that he was a human with failings, as are we? How will we be judged a hundred years from now for the pervasive and persistent sexism and racism we tolerate in our ranks, or the perverse work ethic we condone that leads to high rates of addiction and suicide in our colleagues? Forgive Osler his past sins; it is ours that demand our consideration.