Hawa Abdi Quotes

Medicine has always been my calling.

For a long time, I thought I would like to be a doctor. Such a good profession. So explicitly good. Never a waste of time.

If I hadn't become a photographer, I would have loved to become a doctor. I would have loved to have done something that actually helped people and changed their lives.

Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the earliest records of every culture on earth. It is hard to think of a more dependable or enduring occupation, harder still to imagine any future events leading to its extinction.

If I wasn't a designer, I would love to be a doctor. That is my fantasy, my dream. A doctor will give you a tablet if you have a headache, and I will give you a dress, and we both make you feel good.

Medicine grounds me, it centers me, that's why I continue to do it.

I decided I wanted to be a physician when I was seven years old.

Michael respected doctors immensely: that they went to school, that they studied... to do no harm.

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.

Before, if I wasn't in baseball, I wanted to become a doctor.

Practicing medicine is not only my vocation, it gives me an opportunity to continue to be in direct contact with people, to see them and hear their needs.

I'm a doctor; we work in teams. I'm very committed to problem solving.

Medicine and writing are natural companions.

As a doctor, I've learned the importance and value of listening.

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

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

Medicine is so fascinating.

I wanted to be a surgeon, possibly influenced by the qualities of our family doctor who cared for our childhood ailments.

I wanted to be a doctor since I was five.

He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.

The medical genre is beloved, and there are so many great stories to be told - and that's why it's so popular.

There's nothing more raw in life than when you're sick.

I am not an expert in medical field.

My mother wanted me to be a doctor.