I am a career physician. I practiced for 32 years before I began my career as a public servant.
Doctors are not servants of their patients, they are traders like everyone else in a free society and they should bear that title proudly considering the crucial importance of the services they offer.
Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
I didn't think I was going to school to be a doctor - no offense, but that wasn't me.
Of course, the medical profession doesn't like D.I.Y. anything.
Football has never left me. I still wake up in the morning and think of the operating room like a game, like it's showtime, let's perform.
I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.
I have one brother who is a surgeon, there's me, and my other brother builds boats.
To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.
I'm a medical doctor by training. I'm a physician, not a politician. And I'm in this as a mother on fire.
HOMŒOPATHIST, n. The humorist of the medical profession.
Remember, I'm a doctor's daughter. So obviously I'm interested in all medical things.
I was asked by an NPR reporter once why don't I talk about race that often. I said, 'It's because I'm a neurosurgeon.' And she thought that was a strange response... I said, 'You see, when I take someone to the operating room, I'm actually operating on the thing that makes them who they are. The skin doesn't make them who they are.'
As a physician for over 30 years, I am well aware of the dangers infectious diseases pose.
Choosing my career was always based on job satisfaction rather than financial security. I wanted to get a job in science; I enjoyed being a surgeon and I now enjoy being an academic and having a media career.
My mother's father was a doctor, and she desperately wanted to be a doctor.
If I was smart enough to be a doctor, I'd be a doctor. I ain't, so I'm a football player.
I had once thought I would become a doctor but gave up on the thought soon enough. I took up the racquet instead. Later, when I saw my sister studying so much to become a doctor, I was like, 'Thank God I am a shuttler!'
I have spent 40 years both as a doctor and public servant putting people first.
I always wanted to be a medical doctor, and I never thought of business.
My brief stay at the hospital had already convinced me that the medical profession was an open door to anyone nursing a grudge against the human race.
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've never made a penny being a doctor, so that makes it not a job. My sense of a doctor is that one is a presence caring for health. So I'm never not a doctor. People call me from all over the world who are hurting, and I care for them. Chatting is what more people want than anything.
You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten.
Over the years my mother's steadfast faith in God has inspired me, particularly when I had to perform extremely difficult surgical procedures or when I found myself faced with my own medical scare.
