Ami Bera Quotes

Communication is everything, especially as a doctor, you need to communicate with your patients.

I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.

I grew up with a real appreciation about just how wonderful and intimate the relationship is between a doctor and a patient was and the sense that this was a noble profession.

A doctor is not a mechanic. A car doesn't react with a mechanic, but a human being does.

Practicing medicine is not only my vocation, it gives me an opportunity to continue to be in direct contact with people, to see them and hear their needs.

I never quite envisioned myself a proper doctor under that white coat, but I was interested in the idea of healing and in the psychological dimension rather early on.

We sometimes think that the best doctors are the ones who have the most specialized knowledge or the fanciest degrees, but in fact, study upon study, including one published in the 'New England Journal of Medicine,' show that the best doctors are the ones who also know how to connect with their patients.

It is fundamental when you are a doctor for a good doctor-patient relationship.

Care more for the individual patient than for the special features of the disease. . . . Put yourself in his place . . . The kindly word, the cheerful greeting, the sympathetic look - these the patient understands.

Do you think that was kind? Do you think it was godlike? What would you think of a physician, if a woman came to him distressed and said, "Doctor, come to my daughter, she is very ill. She has lost her reason, and she is all I have!" What would you think of the doctor who would not reply at all at first, and then, when she fell at his feet and worshiped him, answered that he did not spend his time doctoring dogs? Would you like him as a family physician?

You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.

There is only one cardinal rule: One must always listen to the patient.

Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something.

The practice of medicine is a thinker's art the practice of surgery a plumber's.

Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.

Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the earliest records of every culture on earth. It is hard to think of a more dependable or enduring occupation, harder still to imagine any future events leading to its extinction.

I'm a doctor; we work in teams. I'm very committed to problem solving.

What I do for a living is listen.

Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening.

I don't think I'd want to sit down and listen to people's stories all day long.

What doctor does not need platform heels and dark black eyeliner to treat their patients?

I was good at being a doctor; my patients liked me. At times people trust you with things they wouldn't tell their spouses. It was a real privilege.

Medicine has always been my calling.

Does anyone really go into nursing intending to be apathetic, cold and removed from suffering? I find that very difficult to believe.