Quotes On Medicine Profession

#1. Patient autonomy is paramount to the oath that we take when we enter the profession of medicine. That is why I am appalled when the federal government gets between my patients and their right to the full range of medical information and complete access to health care.

Ami Bera

#2. In the words of the philosopher Sceptum, the founder of my profession: am I going to get paid for this?

Terry Pratchett

#3. Initially I had intended to study medicine, but before going to University I had decided that I would be better suited to a career in which I could concentrate my activities and interests more on a single goal than appeared to be possible in my father's profession.

Frederick Sanger

#4. If you care to be a master or to make a true success of your profession, the smallest detail of your work must be done with thoroughness. To be thorough in medicine means that in the ever alluring present, we do not forget the past.

David Murray Cowie

#5. Every profession has changed. Journalism has changed. Medicine has changed. Technology has changed and it evolves. The same is true of football. Free agency has now allowed teams to be a dynasty as they have been before. It is not a great thing for the fans, but it is a good thing for the players.

Marv Levy

#6. Like plumbing, medicine is a profession where you learn early on not to put your fingers in your mouth.

Diana Gabaldon

#7. Medicine would be the ideal profession if it did not involve giving pain.

Samuel Hopkins Adams

#8. To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession.

William Standish Knowles

#9. In the medical profession a horse and carriage are more necessary than any scientific knowledge.

Honore De Balzac

#10. Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence.

James Bryce

#11. Doctors, like all other people, are subject to prejudice and discrimination. While bias can be a problem in any profession, in medicine, the stakes are much higher.

Damon Tweedy

#12. Any such unnatural union as the mingling of an exclusive system, such as homeopathy, with scientific medicine in a school, ... (will) render every school adopting such a policy unworthy of support of the profession.

Harris L Coulter

#13. ... through medicine it is possible to reach the unreachable - even the ones who most of us forget about or actively try to ignore. This is the power and beauty of our profession.

Matt McCarthy

#14. Is advertising a profession, like law or medicine? How many new parents clutch their baby to their breast and declare, 'I want this child to grow up to be a media planner'?

Jef I. Richards

#15. I wasn't sued out of medicine, I wasn't arbitrated out of the profession.

Ken Jeong

#16. 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

#17. Mom did not want me to have anything to do with playing music. Being from a middle-class Black family in that particular era, everybody wanted you to have a profession
a doctor, a lawyer, and so forth. So she sent me to school to study medicine.

Don Alias

#18. We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#19. I think there is a sort of box-ticking mentality. Not just in the teaching profession. You hear about it in medicine and nursing. It's a lawyer-driven insistence on meeting prescribed standards rather than just being a good doctor.

Richard Dawkins

#20. It cannot be too often or too forcibly brought home to us that the hope of the profession is with the men who do its daily work in general practice.

William Osler

#21. It must be frustrating to survive the gauntlet that is our western medical schooling system only to one day come to the realization that you have been taught only to manage illness and disease instead of curing it.

Gary Hopkins

#22. And though you study medicine for a score of lifetimes, there will come to you people whose illnesses are mysteries, for the anguish of which you speak is part and parcel of the profession of healing and must be lived with.

Noah Gordon

#23. The general public is easy. You don't have to answer to anyone; and as long as you follow the rules of your profession, you needn't worry about the consequences. But the problem with the powerful and rich is that when they are sick, they really want their doctors to cure them.

Moliere

#24. I am in a profession that has succeeded because of its ability to fix. If your problem is fixable, we know just what to do. But if it's not? The fact that we have had no adequate answers to this question is troubling and has caused callousness, inhumanity, and extraordinary suffering.

Atul Gawande

#25. 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.

Charles Babbage

#26. Dr. Buford's profession was medicine and his obsession was anything that grew in the ground, so he stayed poor.

Harper Lee

#27. We'd been assured it wouldn't be painful, though she might experience 'discomfort,' a term beloved of the medical profession that seems to be a synonym for agony that isn't yours.

Lionel Shriver

#28. There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine.

Gerald F. Lieberman

#29. I have endeavored to show that there is no real service of humanity in the profession of medicine and that it is injurious to mankind.

Mahatma Gandhi

#30. The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

Hippocrates