Augusten Burroughs Quotes

We've gotten commitments from medical schools, from nursing schools, to step up and increase that pool of knowledgeable individuals.

You can't be a doctor if you don't know the entire parts of the body.

Medical school education and post graduate education emphasize thoroughness.

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 completed medical school at Loma Linda University School of Medicine in 1984.

I tell [medical students] that they are the luckiest persons on earth to be in medical school, and to forget all this worry about H.M.O.'s and keep your eye on helping the patient. It's the best time ever to be a doctor because you can heal and treat conditions that were untreatable even a couple of years ago.

I learned about a lot of things in medical school, but mortality wasn't one of them.

I was always interested in medicine and I was actually a pre-med major.

When I was contemplating medical school after graduating from Knox, several people suggested that nursing was a more suitable profession for women. My own mother discouraged me from becoming a doctor. But this is not why I became a nurse instead!

Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.

I could have gone to medical school, I said. Except for all the math and stuff.

I was at Harvard Medical School and there were not a lot of, kind of, community health options, and I wound up at - sort of in Harvard Community Health Center for various reasons.

Medical school had been a time for imaginary diseases and Martin had contracted almost all of them.

Too many trained nurses discommode Cupid.

I believe some people are just too damn smart to write fiction.

I did a lot of thinking, and used mental activity to relieve whatever feelings I had. I became very left-brained, and I was good in school. That is, I was a smart kid.

He's clever,' thought Ivan,' I must admit there are some smart people even among the intelligentsia

The world is full of smart, poor people.

Stupid people surround themselves with smart people. Smart people surround themselves with smart people who disagree with them.

First of all, with Mitt Romney, I was saying to the Mormons - the Mormons are very smart people.

I love people, 'cause people are so smart. People have done a lot of great things.

I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good.

Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few doctors, either male or female, as possible. For, mark you, the women have made no improvement they have only tried to be "men" and they have only succeeded in being third-rate men.

To have a group of cloistered clinicians away completely from the broad current of professional life would be bad for teacher and worse for student. The primary work of a professor of medicine in a medical school is in the wards, teaching his pupils how to deal with patients and their diseases.

Everyone's brain works in a different way. I didn't feel smart in school; I just didn't get it. I thought I was an idiot. Until I got out.