Rebecca Skloot Quotes

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

Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.

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.

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 and patients need as much data as possible to make an informed decision about what treatment is best.

As a physician, I understand how important it is to collect data on people so we can understand what's happening with them. I will be in the position to help enable that knowledge.

Most patients enter a doctor's office or hospital as if it were a Mayan temple, representing an ancient and mysterious culture with no language in common with the visitor.

The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed.

And it's sort of an old-fashioned ER, in that it's very much about the medicine, and how these people cope. There's very little about the personal lives of the characters.

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.

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

The new triad of medicine: a doctor, a patient and an accountant.

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

The most important practical lesson that can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe - how to observe - what symptoms indicate improvement - what the reverse - which are of importance - which are of none - which are the evidence of neglect - and of what kind of neglect.

How can we keep people healthy, and if they get sick, how can we treat them right the first time?

Medication without explanation is obscene.

Did you know that there was a study in 1961 that found that 90 percent of physicians wouldn't tell you if you were diagnosed with cancer?

I totally deplore the notion of an M.D. giving pills to patients - a medical doctor giving psychological or psychoactive change agents to another person.

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

It takes a village to run the Big Man - a village of doctors.

The doctors, whether based in Brussels or Paris, draw the same conclusions and write the same prescriptions.

I don't want doctors and patients to be having to - having to literally ration care, take away that relationship by having the government come in and interfere.

I wanted to be a doctor. I was pre-med at school, and I actually even took the MCAT. My ultimate decision was that I didn't love the work environment in a hospital.

After a performance at Hosadurga, I was struggling with severe gastroenteritis, for which I took multiple injections to ease the pain. But when it wouldn't abate, I got hospitalized, and that is when the heart issues were found out.

Communication is everything, especially as a doctor, you need to communicate with your patients.