Siddhartha Mukherjee Quotes

I do not practice clinical medicine and hence do not treat individual patients. My career is in medical science.

I have also testified repeatedly and published some articles in favor of Small Science.

I have a Bachelor in medicine, a Bachelor in surgery, and I am a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons.

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.

Very few [doctors] are men of science in any very serious sense; they're men of technique.

The pursuit of curiosity about the basic facts of nature has proven, with few exceptions throughout the history of medical science, to be the route by which the successful drugs and devices of modern medicine were discovered.

A major feature of life at the NIH in late 1960s was the extraordinary offering of evening courses for physicians attempting to become scientists as they neared thirty.

I contemplated a career at NIH at one point. I have a neuroscience background.

The New England Journal of Medicine reports that 9 out of 10 doctors agree that 1 out of 10 doctors is an idiot.

Although attracted by the humanities, I had chosen medicine as a career, seduced by the image of the 'man in white' dispensing care and solace to the suffering. But science was lurking around the corner, in the form of an unpaid student assistantship in the laboratory of physiology.

I wouldn't want to donate my body for scientific study.

I am a doctor, a real doctor.

When I went to medical school, the term 'digital' applied only to rectal exams.

I was fascinated by each area I studied, whether neurology, urology or surgery.

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.

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

This means I must pay close attention to the writing, but equally so to the scientific background - which sometimes means doing fairly involved calculations.

All research scientists know that writing in the passive voice is artificial; they are not disembodied observers, but people doing research.

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.

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 am a medical scientist, not a practical physician.

My dream is to be a doctor. I'm almost working in a laboratory, because I'm trying new techniques, new directions and fabrics, new weaving.

The practice of physic [Medicine] is jostled by quacks on the one side, and by science on the other.

There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper.

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