Andrew Weil Quotes

Little does the sick man consult his own interests, who makes his physician his heir.

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

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

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.

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

I am not a physician, but I am deeply interested in diagnostic categories and have read extensively in the history of the subject.

I wanted to be a doctor since I was five.

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

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.

Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered.

Gout, a physician's name for the rheumatism of a rich patient

I'm now convinced that I'm a doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I'm like, 'Well, that's your spleen.'

I decided I wanted to be a physician when I was seven years old.

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

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

We have a lot of great hospitals in America, across the country.

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

Medical attention is medical attention, whether it's for your elbow or for your teeth or for your brain. And it's important.

I am not an expert in medical field.

When I was little, I wanted to be a plastic surgeon.

I want to do something in medicine, for sure. I don't know what, exactly, that entails, but something along those lines.

There's a classic medical aphorism: 'Listen to the patient; they're telling you the diagnosis.' Actually, a lot of patients are just telling you a lot of rubbish, and you have to stop them and ask the pertinent questions. But, yes, in both drama and medicine, isolated facts can accumulate to create the narrative.

Medicine is a supremely useful profession. Fiction writing is not.

I wanted to be a doctor, that was the goal.