Medical Practice Quotes

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

As a medical doctor, I have known the face of adversity. I have seen much of death and dying, suffering and sorrow. I also remember the plight of students overwhelmed by their studies and of those striving to learn a foreign language. And I recall the fatigue and frustration felt by young parents with children in need.

Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.

When some states introduced mandatory smallpox vaccinations during the epidemic of 1898-1903, Americans resisted by the thousands. The ensuing battles produced medical conventions and case law that altered the balance between government authority and medical practice, in favor of federal control.

If I was smart enough to be a doctor, I'd be a doctor. I ain't, so I'm a football player.

My mother's father was a doctor, and she desperately wanted to be a doctor.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

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.

MEDICINE, n. A stone flung down the Bowery to kill a dog in Broadway.

I started my career as a surgeon 25 years ago. But it turned out that I am not talented as a surgeon, so I decided to change my career. But I still feel that I am a doctor. So my goal, all my life, is to bring this stem-cell technology to the bedside.

The politics have always been difficult in medicine. There is some truth in the way medical practice is portrayed in TV dramas.

My doctor is a family physician. He treats my family and I support his.

I am the doctor of our family, and I am a big fan of homeopathy.

Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.

I could have gone to medical school, I said. Except for all the math and stuff.

I think if I had done anything else I would like to have been a doctor. This is the sort of polar opposition to being a writer, I suppose.

Homeopathy is the safest and more reliable approach to ailments and has withstood the assaults of established medical practice for over 100 years

My father was a doctor, an army cardiologist.

The pace at which fundamental discoveries of basic science are being uncovered is accelerating, as is the speed at which medical practice is being transformed by these inventions.

The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head. Often the best part of your work will have nothing to do with potions and powders, but with the exercise of an influence of the strong upon the weak, of the righteous upon the wicked, of the wise upon the foolish.

I think I kind of grew up with that a little bit and have great admiration for people who do [medical practice] for a living and who are real empaths. So I suppose I drew on - , from my mom a bit.

I do think that VA, as the largest employer of nurses and the largest health system in the country, often does become a place where we can demonstrate advances in medical practice.

The Doctor's Motto: Have patients.

The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.

It was a lie but he believed in telling lies to people. Truth telling and medicine just didn't go together except in dire emergencies, if then.