Robert Atkins Quotes

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.

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'm a physician first and foremost. I will always be a physician.

I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come.

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.

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

The field of medicine is one you have to have a lot of dedication to enter.

I am a career physician. I practiced for 32 years before I began my career as a public servant.

I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician. I think it's very upfront. I am a doctor. I have long experience with heart disease.

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.

If we practiced medicine like we practice education, we'd look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate years.

For as long as I can really remember, I wanted to be a doctor.

Medical school education and post graduate education emphasize thoroughness.

I'm a medical doctor and a biomedical scientist.

Expertise is the mantra of modern medicine.

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 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.

Instead of writing thrillers to pay for my train bills, I was actually now going to medical school in order to have something to write about.

Originally, I was in high school, and I was studying biology, and I got really interested in the field of medicine. And then, I got a lot of early exposure to it because my father's a physician, and I saw the relationship that he had with his patients, and it was something that drew my attention to how wonderful the field was.

I'm an internist by training.

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.

What doctor does not need platform heels and dark black eyeliner to treat their patients?

I was fascinated by each area I studied, whether neurology, urology or surgery.

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.