Tabare Vazquez Quotes

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

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 think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.

Medicine has always been my calling.

I never quite envisioned myself a proper doctor under that white coat, but I was interested in the idea of healing and in the psychological dimension rather early on.

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

If I hadn't become a photographer, I would have loved to become a doctor. I would have loved to have done something that actually helped people and changed their lives.

The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.

I'm a doctor; we work in teams. I'm very committed to problem solving.

Common sense is in medicine the master workman.

Diagnosis is not the end, but the beginning of practice.

For a long time, I thought I would like to be a doctor. Such a good profession. So explicitly good. Never a waste of time.

I wanted to be a surgeon, possibly influenced by the qualities of our family doctor who cared for our childhood ailments.

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

Medicine involves dealing with people who are going through changes and cycles, often people trapped in bodies that are going out from under them. Spending time with them lets you think their way, gives you insights as a writer.

I'm an internist by training.

I grew up with a real appreciation about just how wonderful and intimate the relationship is between a doctor and a patient was and the sense that this was a noble profession.

He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.

There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so much by what he said but by what he did, that there is an intimate relation between curing and caring.

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

Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.

Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.

From the very commencement the student should set out to witness the progress and effects of sickness and ought to persevere in the daily observation of disease during the whole period of his studies.

I am not really sure how I got interested in medicine.