Ellen Pompeo Quotes

The grist for my mill is the human body and the art of healing.

I liked medicine. I liked helping people. I liked the biology of it and understanding how the body works.

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

Remember, I'm a doctor's daughter. So obviously I'm interested in all medical things.

Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health.

I'm a medical doctor and a biomedical scientist.

Medicine is so big and so important.

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.

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.

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

Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease.

I am not an expert in medical field.

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

They certainly give very strange names to diseases.

Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.

We may never understand illnesses such as cancer. In fact, we may never cure it. But an ounce of prevention is worth more than a million pounds of cure.

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.

I'd like to focus on my life on creating new medicines for people who are suffering from rare disease.

You can't save kids just with vaccines.

A hospital is no place to be sick.

If I wasn't a designer, I would love to be a doctor. That is my fantasy, my dream. A doctor will give you a tablet if you have a headache, and I will give you a dress, and we both make you feel good.

My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.

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.

One learns the states of the human body with respect to what is healthy and what deviates from it, for the purpose of preserving health when it already exists and restoring it when it has been lost.