Samuel Wilson Quotes

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

To become comfortable with uncertainty is one of the primary goals in the training of a physician.

I treated as few patients as I could as a medical student, and I never practiced medicine.

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

I'm an ER doctor, period. I look at a problem with a certain lens: very action-oriented, very results-oriented.

What I learned from my work as a physician is that even with the most complicated patients, the most complicated problems, you've got to look hard to find every piece of data and evidence that you can to improve your decision-making. Medicine has taught me to be very much evidence-based and data-driven in making decisions.

By keeping my hand in that, it's the way I keep learning. The main way you learn in medicine is by practicing and working with patients.

To have a group of cloistered clinicians away completely from the broad current of professional life would be bad for teacher and worse for student. The primary work of a professor of medicine in a medical school is in the wards, teaching his pupils how to deal with patients and their diseases.

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.

I was under the care of a couple of medical students who couldn't diagnose a decapitation.

To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.

Common sense is in medicine the master workman.

Well, I would never do a study because I'm a practicing physician. I mean, all I do is treat people.

Medical judgment can be taught - laboriously, in long periods of training - but it cannot be neatly handed over as the occasion demands it. It is the irreplaceable and untransferable contribution that the healer makes to the suffering individual who would be healed.

Medical school education and post graduate education emphasize thoroughness.

You don't train someone for all of those years of medical school and residency, particularly people who want to help others optimize their physical and psychological health, and then have them run a claims-processing operation for insurance companies.

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

We can learn something from every single medical interaction. Every case, every patient has a lesson to teach us.

Medicine is learned by the bedside and not in the classroom. Let not your conceptions of disease come from words heard in the lecture room or read from the book. See, and then reason and compare and control. But see first.

Every physician must be rich in knowledge, and not only of that which is written in books; his patients should be his book, they will never mislead him.

If I could be a doctor and save lives I would, but I can't so I sing songs.

I was going to college to be a doctor.

We know from our clinical experience in the practice of medicine that in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment, the individual and his background of heredity are just as important, if not more so, as the disease itself.

I spent some time at White Memorial Medical Center as a senior medical student doing a rotation in surgery; however, I felt I wasn't getting enough time assisting.

I would like the Medical Society to be one of the resources for information about the influences that have an impact on our patients and our practices.