William Osler Quotes

No young doctor nowadays can hope for work as exciting and rewarding.

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

Nurses serve their patients in the most important capacities. We know that they serve as our first lines of communication when something goes wrong or when we are concerned about health.

Although I completed two years of internship in various small hospitals, I decided against continuing my medical training. I was much more fascinated by the unsolved problems of medicine than by practicing it.

Health care providers, saving lives daily in our emergency rooms, live with federal mandates.

I do not practice clinical medicine and hence do not treat individual patients. My career is in medical science.

When I went to medical school, the term 'digital' applied only to rectal exams.

The medical profession is - and knows itself to be - endemically conservative and conformist.

Each and every day health centers provide high-quality primary and preventive care to our constituents.

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

Medical school education and post graduate education emphasize thoroughness.

I'm a medical doctor and a biomedical scientist.

My background is in health care.

There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine.

I don't know how doctors pick one specialty over another. Some you can understand. Pediatricians. Or gynecologists delivering babies, bringing a new life into the world, but how does someone want to be a proctologist? How can you fall in love with proctology?

I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician.

I spent my 20s working in patient care at a large university hospital, an experience that has informed all my work and has given me a lot of human observation to draw on.

The kind of doctor I want is one who when he's not examining me is home studying medicine.

It's rare - too rare, I have to say - for botanists to become doctors.

I have always been interested in health care and doing something that is dramatic.

I would like the Medical Society to be one of the resources for information about the influences that have an impact on our patients and our practices.

My advice to the Sultan is to build hospitals for sick Muslims, with a staff of physicians and attendants who will cure them and minister to their needs

… we are merely the servants of the public, in spite of our M.d. ’s and our hospital appointments

My wife is a doctor at a veteran's hospital.

Medicine is so big and so important.