Phil Gingrey Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Medical school education and post graduate education emphasize thoroughness.

I'm a medical doctor and a biomedical scientist.

Expertise is the mantra of modern medicine.

I wanted to be a doctor since I was five.

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

I wanted to be a doctor, that was the goal.

Originally, I was in high school, and I was studying biology, and I got really interested in the field of medicine. And then, I got a lot of early exposure to it because my father's a physician, and I saw the relationship that he had with his patients, and it was something that drew my attention to how wonderful the field was.

I'm an internist by training.

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.

In 1968, I left Cambridge and went to work in New York with Irving M. London, who was then the chairman of the Department of Medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

As a heart surgeon I am on constant call, and when not researching or giving lectures, I like to be with my family.

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.

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.

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 always wanted to follow in the footsteps of my maternal grandfather, who was a doctor.

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 would like to see the day when somebody would be appointed surgeon somewhere who had no hands, for the operative part is the least part of the work.

My father was a doctor.