Gunter Blobel Quotes

I would like the Medical Society to be one of the resources for information about the influences that have an impact on our patients and our practices.

I treated as few patients as I could as a medical student, and I never practiced medicine.

Medical school education and post graduate education emphasize thoroughness.

To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.

The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.

When I went to medical school, the term 'digital' applied only to rectal exams.

I'm a medical doctor and a biomedical scientist.

I am a career physician. I practiced for 32 years before I began my career as a public servant.

I'm an internist by training.

No young doctor nowadays can hope for work as exciting and rewarding.

I saw my friends in medical school seeming to be more engaged with the real world. That provoked a sort of jealousy, and I decided to go to medical school after all.

From the very commencement the student should set out to witness the progress and effects of sickness and ought to persevere in the daily observation of disease during the whole period of his studies.

In 1973, I left the Rockefeller University to join the Yale University Medical School. The main reason for the move was my belief that the time had come for fruitful interactions between the new discipline of Cell Biology and the traditional fields of interest of medical schools, namely Pathology and Clinical Medicine.

I do not practice clinical medicine and hence do not treat individual patients. My career is in medical science.

It was clear to me from the start that I would need to combine both a medical degree with a research qualification, to keep at the cutting edge of medical science and technology.

I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come.

In medical school, it's quite possible to get taught that you can diagnose everybody and treat everything. But then you get out in the real world and find that for most patients walking through your door, you have no idea what's causing their symptoms.

I think what medical training does is it gives you the language, the tools to look up facts. I think medical training gives you a sense of how to approach a problem, how to look at symptoms and go down the list of what it might be.

I studied in a medical college and qualified myself as a medical graduate.

For as long as I can really remember, I wanted to be a doctor.

I have an obligation to use what I know to try to bring real, usable medical science to every doctor and bedside and patient.

The downside to becoming a doctor, I think, is it's a very long process; four years of medical school, three years of internship, two years of residency, umpteen years of specialization, and then finally you get to be what you have trained almost all your life for.

There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine.

You don't train someone for all of those years of medical school and residency, particularly people who want to help others optimize their physical and psychological health, and then have them run a claims-processing operation for insurance companies.

I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician.