Jonathan Kellerman Quotes

I think it's a very valuable thing for a doctor to learn how to do research, to learn how to approach research, something there isn't time to teach them in medical school. They don't really learn how to approach a problem, and yet diagnosis is a problem; and I think that year spent in research is extremely valuable to them.

You know, I look to myself mainly as a creative writer all my life and a medical doctor.

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.

We need to bridge the gap between the medical libraries and the hospital rooms; take the information out there already, add to it, focus it, harness it - and bring it to the patient who was just diagnosed today.

Three of my children are medical doctors, they know at least a hundred times as much about your body as my grandfather knew, but they don't know much more about soul than he did.

I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation.

There's a lot of arrogance in the medical community. There are good, reliable websites you can go to for information - the Mayo Clinic, the Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins.

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.

Huge sums are invested globally in medical research and development - and with good reason.

It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.

Medical judgment can be taught - laboriously, in long periods of training - but it cannot be neatly handed over as the occasion demands it. It is the irreplaceable and untransferable contribution that the healer makes to the suffering individual who would be healed.

It's really hard for me to memorize the medical jargon if I don't know the meaning of every single word. So I do have to do a little Wikipedia/YouTube research to figure out what I'm talking about.

I have an obligation to use what I know to try to bring real, usable medical science to every doctor and bedside and patient.

I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college, then went to medical school. I've never had any formal training in writing.

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes.

I think that there are changes that have occurred in technology that make is that more people can have the same level of information that I have. My advantage is that I'm very good at interpreting the information.

I'm a medical doctor and a biomedical scientist.

Give me good writing, and I'll play it all day.

When I was a young girl, I was so crazy about animals that I wanted to do something associated with them, and I thought of being a vet. But then again, I figured I had to go to medical school, and science wasn't a good subject for me, so I dropped the idea pretty soon and thought maybe I could be a vet's assistant.

My father told us all the time: to become a good writer takes writing. Because the more you do it, the better you get at it. It's like bull-riding. You can't do it once, you know. You've got to practice it and practice it.

Only a reader can become a writer. Develop a lively intellect and the ability to become interested in anything, no matter how mundane it might seem at first. Look for the story. Develop an eye for detail. Feed your mind and your brain: learn as much as you can about everything you can.

There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine.

Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back in the shell.