Michelle Obama Quotes

Arizona has excellent medical schools, both public and private, and it is critical that we create an environment that keeps medical students in Arizona to practice medicine once they complete medical school and their residency programs.

and she's a nurse. do you know how hard nursing school is? it's like medical school. so she's obviously smart.

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.

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

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

Medical school education and post graduate education emphasize thoroughness.

I think we need to educate our doctors about addiction.

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

In Kenya, e-learning has taught 12,000 nurses how to treat major diseases such as HIV and malaria, compared to the 100 nurses a year that can be taught in a classroom.

I learned about a lot of things in medical school, but mortality wasn't one of them.

But we need a medical community that's trained and knowledgeable and working on advancement.

Medical men do not know the drugs they use, nor their prices.

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.

Med students panic their first year when they learn all the diseases. It's not until the second year that they learn the cures.

I was at Harvard Medical School and there were not a lot of, kind of, community health options, and I wound up at - sort of in Harvard Community Health Center for various reasons.

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.

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

I've never bought this idea of taking a therapeutic distance. If I see a student or house staff cry, I take great faith in that. That's a great person; they're going to be a great doctor.

What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it - the process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialized language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve; empathy can be replaced by cynicism.

Delaware State began as a school bent on service - teaching education, social services and nursing.

The downside to becoming a doctor, I think, is it's a very long process; four years of medical school, three years of internship, two years of residency, umpteen years of specialization, and then finally you get to be what you have trained almost all your life for.

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.

That is what I'm looking forward to the most, practical learning. I want to be a registered nurse so getting to talk to people who already work in those jobs can really teach me what to expect when I get out in the real world.

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.