Atul Gawande Quotes

The practice of medicine is a thinker's art the practice of surgery a plumber's.

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.

At 10, I was intrigued by surgery, I wanted to be a surgeon for a long time. I love doctor shows and surgery shows. Blood is not an issue for me. I even took pictures once of me getting my blood taken.

I love the opportunity to help my patients, to work with them to find the best course of action to get them healthy and to give them the information they need to stay healthy.

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

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.

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

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.

I temporarily became a surgeon for 'Memory of Love'. I spent two weeks in an operating theatre, watching amputations, and I loved it.

The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.

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.

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

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Prior to my call to the Twelve, I served as a medical doctor and surgeon.

My mother wanted me to be a doctor.

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

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

My father's a dermatologic surgeon; my brother's a surgeon.

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

The Doctor's Motto: Have patients.

My best friends when I was young were always doctors. I used to dress up in a white gauze helmet and go round and see babies born and cadavers cut open. This fascinated me, but I could never bring myself to disciplining myself to the point where I could learn all the details that one has to learn to be a good doctor. This is the sort of opposition: somebody who deals directly with human experiences, is able to cure, to mend, to help, this sort of thing.

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

There are a ton of medical dramas out there dealing with life and death.

If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.