Jennifer Egan Quotes

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

I have a Bachelor in medicine, a Bachelor in surgery, and I am a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons.

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

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.

At 10, I was intrigued by surgery, I wanted to be a surgeon for a long time. I love doctor shows and surgery shows. Blood is not an issue for me. I even took pictures once of me getting my blood taken.

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.

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 wish medical schools helped us to analyze our healthy and unhealthy reasons for becoming doctors.

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.

In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

My dad was a surgeon in Egypt. He was a general surgeon. As a little boy I always admired what he was doing, and I wanted to do surgery.

I temporarily became a surgeon for 'Memory of Love'. I spent two weeks in an operating theatre, watching amputations, and I loved it.

As a heart surgeon I am on constant call, and when not researching or giving lectures, I like to be with my family.

My job as a physician is to make sure I have provided my patients with the best options to make the decisions that affect their lives.

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

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.

It wasn't the 'miracle of engineering' that is the human body that was filling me with a mad desire to live my days and nights in a pair of scrubs. The hard truth was I did not remotely want to be a surgeon. I actually just wanted to be on 'Grey's Anatomy.'

There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine.

Everybody who's a physician, who makes vaccines, who wants to find the cure for cancer. Everybody who wants to do any medical good for humankind got the passion for that before he or she was 10.

I wanted to be a doctor since I was five.

I'd make a terrible surgeon. The fear of blood? Very high on my list.

As a child, I had no interest in science whatsoever - then I started writing and recognized how relevant it was. My first book about science and medicine captured the world of organ transplantation in 1989 from the points of view of all of the participants - scientists, surgeons, social workers, organ recipients and even donor families.

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.