Raul Ruiz Quotes

I am a doctor, a real doctor.

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

Michael respected doctors immensely: that they went to school, that they studied... to do no harm.

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

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.

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

I'm a medical doctor and a biomedical scientist.

To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.

I wanted to be a doctor since I was five.

The difference between doctors and lawyers is that doctors try and solve problems and not just argue about them.

We are trained to be medical doctors first and if you have to put neurosurgery aside to deal with the most vulnerable and susceptible patients, then that's what we'll do.

I wanted to be a doctor, because I grew up on 'Cosby.'

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

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'm an internist by training.

Doctors have an ethical duty to follow the practices and standards of care.

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'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.