Jill Biden Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I saw my friends in medical school seeming to be more engaged with the real world. That provoked a sort of jealousy, and I decided to go to medical school after all.

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.

When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.

I decided to take two years between finishing undergraduate and beginning medical school to devote fully to medical research. I knew that I wanted to go to medical school during undergraduate, but I was also eager to get a significant amount of research experience.

We need to bridge the gap between the medical libraries and the hospital rooms; take the information out there already, add to it, focus it, harness it - and bring it to the patient who was just diagnosed today.

Common sense is in medicine the master workman.

I'm a doctor's daughter. I'm not squeamish at all.

In medical school, it's quite possible to get taught that you can diagnose everybody and treat everything. But then you get out in the real world and find that for most patients walking through your door, you have no idea what's causing their symptoms.

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.

All the filmmakers I've worked with have taken my desire to educate myself very seriously.

Medical school education and post graduate education emphasize thoroughness.

There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs.

I've been taught by everyone I've ever worked with.

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

There was an opening in the ER program at King Drew, so I spent the next month there, fascinated with the range of pathology that I observed, the diversity of skill that the ER physicians had to acquire, the variety of cases, and the ability to interact closely with people.

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.

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