Physician Training Quotes

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

Although physicians, as part of their training, are taught that the dosage of a drug that is prescribed for the patient must be very carefully determined and controlled, they seem to have difficulty in remembering that the same principle applies to the vitamins.

The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.

When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.

My father and mother were both doctors, yes.

BODY-SNATCHER, n. A robber of grave-worms. One who supplies the young physicians with that with which the old physicians have supplied the undertaker.

No young doctor nowadays can hope for work as exciting and rewarding.

I have a lot of optimism about new doctors because I think it's really clear that it's a lot of hard work and no guarantee of a lot of money.

Physick, says Sydenham, is not to bee learned by going to Universities, but hee is for taking apprentices; and says one had as good send a man to Oxford to learn shoemaking as practising physick.

I realized in order to be involved in health policy, you really had to understand more than the individual patient that we as physicians, are taught to think about.

To become comfortable with uncertainty is one of the primary goals in the training of a physician.

I was supposed to be the doctor in my family.

My Brother went to college To become a doctor And if he studies hard enough He'll end up just like papa, who hates his life.

I'm a doctor's daughter. I'm not squeamish at all.

The field of medicine is one you have to have a lot of dedication to enter.

A major feature of life at the NIH in late 1960s was the extraordinary offering of evening courses for physicians attempting to become scientists as they neared thirty.

In addition the bill would expand an existing law 'conscience clause' that protects physician training programs that refuse to provide training for abortion procedures.

I wanted to be a doctor once upon a time, but it turns out you've got to study, and that wasn't going to happen. I had no idea what I was going to do. I had trouble holding jobs because they want you to be on time. That wasn't going to work.

I found out that colonels can stay until they drop dead or get a walker and being a critical medical specialty as an Army trained emergency room doctor, I could stay until age 67.

In my third year at medical school in Birmingham, I joined the Air Force as a medical cadet so that I was sponsored to become a doctor.

Given one well-trained physician of the highest type he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.