Joseph Murray Quotes

Medicine has always been my calling.

For a long time, I thought I would like to be a doctor. Such a good profession. So explicitly good. Never a waste of time.

I wanted to be a doctor since I was five.

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.

I'm from a family of doctors, and I think they really wanted me to be a doctor. I even sort of assumed I would be a doctor.

I wanted to be a doctor when I was little, so I'm okay with blood and guts.

I always wanted to be a medical doctor, and I never thought of business.

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

My father was a doctor.

I decided I wanted to be a physician when I was seven years old.

My mother wanted me to be a doctor.

I want to do something in medicine, for sure. I don't know what, exactly, that entails, but something along those lines.

I've wanted to do medicine actually before I started playing football.

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.

Before, if I wasn't in baseball, I wanted to become a doctor.

The practice of medicine is a thinker's art the practice of surgery a plumber's.

My dad was a surgeon in Egypt. He was a general surgeon. As a little boy I always admired what he was doing, and I wanted to do surgery.

If I hadn't become a photographer, I would have loved to become a doctor. I would have loved to have done something that actually helped people and changed their lives.

I am not really sure how I got interested in medicine.

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.

As a doctor, I've learned the importance and value of listening.

Hospitals are about healing.

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

I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.