Robert James Graves Quotes

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

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

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.

By keeping my hand in that, it's the way I keep learning. The main way you learn in medicine is by practicing and working with patients.

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.

I'm an internist by training.

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.

Common sense is in medicine the master workman.

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.

I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.

Although I completed two years of internship in various small hospitals, I decided against continuing my medical training. I was much more fascinated by the unsolved problems of medicine than by practicing it.

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.

Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.

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.

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

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

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.

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

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.

What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it - the process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialized language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve; empathy can be replaced by cynicism.

I had learned of Gertrude Stein's bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist.

Medical school education and post graduate education emphasize thoroughness.