Severo Ochoa Quotes

Medical school education and post graduate education emphasize thoroughness.

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

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

You don't train someone for all of those years of medical school and residency, particularly people who want to help others optimize their physical and psychological health, and then have them run a claims-processing operation for insurance companies.

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 career physician. I practiced for 32 years before I began my career as a public servant.

I wish medical schools helped us to analyze our healthy and unhealthy reasons for becoming doctors.

Anyone having to do with medicine will have looked at Frank Netter's art work... I decided I would make him my model... getting my degree in medical illustration and then going on to medical school.

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 downside to becoming a doctor, I think, is it's a very long process; four years of medical school, three years of internship, two years of residency, umpteen years of specialization, and then finally you get to be what you have trained almost all your life for.

I spent some time at White Memorial Medical Center as a senior medical student doing a rotation in surgery; however, I felt I wasn't getting enough time assisting.

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.

My father's a dermatologic surgeon; my brother's a surgeon.

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 was always interested in medicine and I was actually a pre-med major.

I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.

I was actually accepted into medical school in Italy. But then I wanted to come back and learn medicine in Germany. And while waiting, I decided to join a business school. I figured it would be useful for doctors to know some business as well!

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

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

I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician. I think it's very upfront. I am a doctor. I have long experience with heart disease.

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 the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

I decided to take two years between finishing undergraduate and beginning medical school to devote fully to medical research. I knew that I wanted to go to medical school during undergraduate, but I was also eager to get a significant amount of research experience.

Whether it's possible or not, being a doctor, you take an oath. To care for your patient, not to kill them. You take an oath to do things that are proper in the medical world. Not to administer something outside of a hospital setting that's not even your area.

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