Quotes About Medicine Students

#1. we all remain students of medicine and servants to others.

Warner M. Burch

#2. People can portray me anyway they want because I don't give a damn ... But don't you analyze me and don't you tell me what I am until you get close enough to understand what I am. Then you can make an analysis of me. But don't you dare do it until then.

Lyle Alzado

#3. If you want to get out of medicine the fullest enjoyment, be students all your lives.

David Riesman

#4. We write from the marrow of our bones.

Adrienne Rich

#5. Being a doctor, you are not supposed to give vent to any signs of revulsion on encountering the most noxious of odours or the most gruesome of sights.

Anurag Shourie

#6. A BMS hears hoofbeats outside his window, the first thing he thinks of is a zebra

Samuel Shem

#7. Every new search is a voyage to the Indies, a quest for buried treasure, a journey to the end of the rainbow; and whether or not at the end there shall be turned up a pot of gold or merely a delightful volume, there are always wonders along the way.

Vincent Starrett

#8. Colleges will try to get the good students. That's the way to go. When I chaired my department of Materials Engineering at the Technion in 1990, we started a program for which we set the bar very high. It was the highest at the Technion, above electrical engineering and medicine.

Dan Shechtman

#9. The important thing is character. It's my character I've got to mould. I'm sure one can do anything with oneself if one tries. It's only a matter of will.

W. Somerset Maugham

#10. Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursing, medicine, teaching and law, with crushing debt burdens.

Jon Porter

#11. To the one who delights in the sovereignty of God the clouds not only have a 'silver lining' but they are silver all through, the darkness only serving to offset the light!

Arthur W. Pink

#12. We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.

Abraham Verghese

#13. Our home had many books due principally to the educational interests of my sister and two brothers, all of whom where serious students engaged in professional studies; my sister became a doctor of medicine and my brothers became lawyers.

Frederick Reines

#14. Weigh risk carefully, and once you decide a risk is manageable and necessary in the pursuit of your dreams, take it.

Adrian Ballinger

#15. A doctor's mission should not be to prevent death, but more importantly it should be to improve the quality of life.

Abhijit Naskar

#16. Oh. Elfrida made much effort not to appear too astonished. She had never seen any person in her life less likely to be a minister's wife.

Rosamunde Pilcher

#17. In every age, art holds up to us the standard pattern of exemplary conduct, and real life does its best to conform.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#18. Everything teeters between pathos and bathos: here you are, violating society's most fundamental taboos and yet formaldehyde is a powerful appetite stimulant, so you also crave a burrito.

Paul Kalanithi

#19. Ethics is not routinely taught to science students except in medicine, and I think it should be.

Robert Winston

#20. It's not funny. How would you like it if your balls fled in fear? My balls haven't been this frightened since I dove into the icy water at the Polar Bear Plunge my first year of high school.

K.C. Faelan

#21. At Christmas you can get real bargains. I saw one item marked down ten dollars. It was a yacht.

Milton Berle