Pierre Omidyar Quotes

My dad was a surgeon in Egypt. He was a general surgeon. As a little boy I always admired what he was doing, and I wanted to do surgery.

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

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

How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema.

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.

My job as a physician is to make sure I have provided my patients with the best options to make the decisions that affect their lives.

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

I went to college, I went pre-med, I thought I was going to be a doctor.

My dad was a big car guy. If you wanted to spend time with my dad, he was working on the car.

I was good at being a doctor; my patients liked me. At times people trust you with things they wouldn't tell their spouses. It was a real privilege.

My dad was a doctor, but he was just always, like, going from hospital to hospital for some reason.

My father was a doctor.

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.

My first car was a Chevy Cavalier. My dad somehow convinced me that it was a hot sports car because it was red.

Doctors are not always right, but they are there to help.

Today, the practice of medicine in an urban, technological society rarely provides either the time or the environment to encourage a doctor-patient relationship that promotes healing.

My mother wanted me to be a doctor.

My family's very medical, so as a field, that, I think, it's so important and wonderful, something I'm definitely interested in. Just not for a living!

I am dying to play the role of a surgeon and if there is a medical series on TV, I would love to do it.

If you actually are a doctor and admitted it, you'd say, 'I don't cure a huge percentage, I don't have a 50 percent cure rate ... but I can have a 100 percent compassion rate'.

Care more for the individual patient than for the special features of the disease. . . . Put yourself in his place . . . The kindly word, the cheerful greeting, the sympathetic look - these the patient understands.

The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.

Do you think that was kind? Do you think it was godlike? What would you think of a physician, if a woman came to him distressed and said, "Doctor, come to my daughter, she is very ill. She has lost her reason, and she is all I have!" What would you think of the doctor who would not reply at all at first, and then, when she fell at his feet and worshiped him, answered that he did not spend his time doctoring dogs? Would you like him as a family physician?

You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.