Alfred Kazin Quotes

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.

By keeping my hand in that, it's the way I keep learning. The main way you learn in medicine is by practicing and working with patients.

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

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 am not really sure how I got interested in medicine.

Doctors and patients need as much data as possible to make an informed decision about what treatment is best.

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

Well, I would never do a study because I'm a practicing physician. I mean, all I do is treat people.

As a physician, I understand how important it is to collect data on people so we can understand what's happening with them. I will be in the position to help enable that knowledge.

I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come.

I'm a medical doctor and a biomedical scientist.

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

The field of medicine is one you have to have a lot of dedication to enter.

A doctor is not a mechanic. A car doesn't react with a mechanic, but a human being does.

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.

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

Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.

From the very commencement the student should set out to witness the progress and effects of sickness and ought to persevere in the daily observation of disease during the whole period of his studies.

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.

The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.

My vantage point on the world is the operating room where I see my patients.

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.

I'm a physician first and foremost. I will always be a physician.

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