Ken Jeong Quotes

Fort Smith, being the place of my longest stay, was the scene of my largest medical practice.

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

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

We sometimes think that the best doctors are the ones who have the most specialized knowledge or the fanciest degrees, but in fact, study upon study, including one published in the 'New England Journal of Medicine,' show that the best doctors are the ones who also know how to connect with their patients.

Prior to my call to the Twelve, I served as a medical doctor and surgeon.

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

General practice is at least as difficult, if it is to be carried on well and successfully, as any special practice can be, and probably more so; for the G.P. has to live continually, as it were, with the results of his handiwork.

No one teaches you how to think about money in medical school or residency. Yet, from the moment you start practicing, you must think about it. You must consider what is covered for a patient and what is not.

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.

But I like it when my patients are impressed not knowing that I was an Olympian.

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.

The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman.

Common sense is in medicine the master workman.

You know, I'm a physician. I like to diagnose things. And, you know, I've diagnosed some pretty, pretty significant issues that I think a lot of people resonate with.

Underperforming hospitals or units should accept that they have to improve the service they offer or that patients, quite properly, will go elsewhere.

Physicians today, as human beings, are not exempt from the perverse economic pressures created by fee-for-service regimes to see more patients for shorter appointments and order more tests and procedures. If the incentives were changed to pay to foster better health outcomes, I am convinced physician behavior would change over time.

Healthcare providers will compete to offer the best record of patient safety at the lowest prices. Hospitals and patients will benefit from having accurate information about areas of excellence and areas that must be improved.

The vast majority of people who speak to me say they have had brilliant care. When they are critical, their concern tends not to be directed at the medical side but the ancillary things that surround it, such as helping patients to eat meals, cleanliness, and making sure that when patients have a problem, they are listened to.

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.

The vast majority of doctors really do try to take the money out of their minds. But to provide the best possible care requires using resources in a way that keeps you viable but improves the quality of care.

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

Medical school education and post graduate education emphasize thoroughness.

I'm a medical doctor and a biomedical scientist.

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.

Expertise is the mantra of modern medicine.