Healthcare Career Quotes

I had always believed that I would retire with Planned Parenthood.

Alex: Rosie, I wanted you to be the first person to no that I’ve decided to become a heart surgeon! Rosie: Cool, does it pay well? Alex: Rosie, it’s not about the money. Rosie: Where I come from, it’s all about the money. Probably because I don’t have any.

I'm in training to become a midwife. I'm almost there and before I know it I'll be able to open my own practice, if that's what I desire.

I worked at Planned Parenthood for eight years, rising through the ranks from volunteer escort to clinic counselor to clinic director.

I flatter myself to even imagine I could have had a medical practice. There's no way. I'm not scientific or disciplined enough, lots of things.

My dad is a nurse midwife, one of about only 50 male midwives in the U.S., I think.

I was supposed to be the doctor in my family.

The goal of my University education was to get into a medical college and equip myself to run a hospital in Kumbakonam left behind by my father, M.K. Sambasivan, who died at a young age in 1936.

I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a doctor. The doctors I knew as a very young child must have helped to plant the desire in me, when I was as young as five or six. One homeopathic physician, Dr. Justice Gage Wright, was a great model.

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.'

Everyone thought I was crazy when I said I have a nursing degree, but I believe I proved it.

I need more personal time and, given my extensive work in health care, I want to pursue that interest further.

With a lot of help from my high school teachers, I went to college and became a medical tech at a clinic outside Kansas City.

I would have loved to have gone into diagnostic medicine.

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.

I wanted to get a job as a gynecologist, but I couldn't find an opening.

I spent 28 years working in healthcare. I thought I'd retired from non-profit community health care.

I would have loved to have been science-minded enough to be in the caring profession - either as a doctor or nurse or vet.