Cass Canfield Quotes

Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.

You know, I look to myself mainly as a creative writer all my life and a medical doctor.

There are now over 5,000 medical physicists in the U.S more than 50 times the number in 1958.

I do not practice clinical medicine and hence do not treat individual patients. My career is in medical science.

Honestly, being a doctor could make you more close minded than regular people.

When I went to medical school, the term 'digital' applied only to rectal exams.

Remember, I'm a doctor's daughter. So obviously I'm interested in all medical things.

Three of my children are medical doctors, they know at least a hundred times as much about your body as my grandfather knew, but they don't know much more about soul than he did.

I took anatomy classes. I went to medical libraries and talked to doctors and nutritionists. I did the whole thing before using myself as a human guinea pig.

The medical profession is - and knows itself to be - endemically conservative and conformist.

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

I'm a medical doctor and a biomedical scientist.

There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine.

I am not an expert in medical field.

Part of what motivated my writing was anger. I was angry that the daily misery of doctors, nurses, and patients was being trivialised into soap opera. We were made to feel bad because we were not perfect like our television counterparts. We were resentful that our patients did not get better as quickly as they did on telly - or at all.

Writing was in my mind from the time I was in high school, but more, the idea that I would be a doctor. I really wanted to be a medical doctor, and I had various schemes: one was to be a psychiatrist, another was tropical medicine.

My father was a doctor.

The politics have always been difficult in medicine. There is some truth in the way medical practice is portrayed in TV dramas.

There's a lot of arrogance in the medical community. There are good, reliable websites you can go to for information - the Mayo Clinic, the Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins.

I had a sense of debt to the medical profession and to surgery particularly. I would not be as ambient as I am without it.

Although I completed two years of internship in various small hospitals, I decided against continuing my medical training. I was much more fascinated by the unsolved problems of medicine than by practicing it.

I wanted to be an actor ever since I got on stage for the first time, aged 13. Before that, I thought I might follow in the medical footsteps of my parents: my father was a doctor, my mother a pharmacist.

After I read all the medical journals and watched all the documentaries, I still didn't understand the physical sensation of ticking and where it comes from and what it feels like.

I had the privilege of practicing medicine in the early '60s, before we had any government. It worked rather well, and there was nobody on the street suffering with no medical care.

My grandmother was a psychiatrist and had shelves full of medical books - I was constantly sneaking looks at some of those. I was fascinated by the descriptions of illnesses and diseases.