Yael Cohen Quotes

When I went to the University, the medical school was the only place where one could hope to find the means to study life, its nature, its origins, and its ills.

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.

I went to college, I went pre-med, I thought I was going to be a doctor.

I completed medical school at Loma Linda University School of Medicine in 1984.

I had my masters in public health, and the goal was to be a doctor, and organic chemistry let me know that that was not going to happen, as did my fear of blood.

I wanted to be a doctor. I was pre-med at school, and I actually even took the MCAT. My ultimate decision was that I didn't love the work environment in a hospital.

My original plan was to be a surgeon.

I don't like blood - I was trying to study to be a doctor, but I don't like blood.

I took pre-med courses in college.

No, I majored in biology, in a pre-med program.

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

I would like to be a heart surgeon or brain surgeon... something with that knowledge and the ability to save a life would be pretty cool. I wasn't that good in science class, though.

By the time I was 12 or 13, I was studying biochemistry textbooks.

I do like books on anatomy. I have to say I'm an amateur physician, I guess.

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.

You can't be a doctor if you don't know the entire parts of the body.

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.

I like writing about biology, not doing it.

I studied in a medical college and qualified myself as a medical graduate.

Medicine is so fascinating.

After briefly considering whether to study biology or medicine, I opted for medicine and initiated my studies at the University of Bonn. The first two years were particularly hard, since I simultaneously decided to attend lectures and courses in biology as well.

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.

I'd make a terrible surgeon. The fear of blood? Very high on my list.

I was going to college to be a doctor.

I thought I wanted to be a pediatrician because, as a second job, my mother would clean up a pediatrician's office. So I was like, 'Oh, OK, baby doctor.' Until I got to college, and all the courses of science with the blood, guts and cadavers? I was like, 'Mm, no.'