Andrew Weil Quotes

He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.

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

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.

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.

Common sense is in medicine the master workman.

I'm an internist by training.

They are the best physicians, who being great in learning most incline to the traditions of experience, or being distinguished in practice do not reflect the methods and generalities of art.

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

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

If we practiced medicine like we practice education, we'd look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate years.

Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.

Well, I would never do a study because I'm a practicing physician. I mean, all I do is treat people.

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.

Medical school education and post graduate education emphasize thoroughness.

Expertise is the mantra of modern medicine.

To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.

Prior to my call to the Twelve, I served as a medical doctor and surgeon.

The field of medicine is one you have to have a lot of dedication to enter.

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.

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 physician first and foremost. I will always be a physician.

The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman.

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

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.

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.