Medical School Quotes

• To have a group of cloistered clinicians away completely from the broad current of professional life would be bad for teacher and worse for student. The primary work of a professor of medicine in a medical school is in the wards, teaching his pupils how to deal with patients and their diseases.

  William Osler

  Teacher, Teaching, School

  Sir William Osler (1985). “The educational essays”

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• Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.

  Abe Lemons

  Motivational Sports, School, Doctors

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• Medical school education and post graduate education emphasize thoroughness.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  School, Medical, Graduates

  "Obama's Health Rationer-in-Chief" by Betsy McCaughey, www.wsj.com. August 27, 2009.

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• So I applied to medical school and received a scholarship at Washington University in St. Louis. Washington University turned out to be a lucky choice. The faculty was scholarly and dedicated and accessible to students.

  Daniel Nathans

  School, Choices, Lucky

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• A Harvard Medical School study has determined that rectal thermometers are still the best way to tell a baby's temperature. Plus, it really teaches the baby who's boss.

  Tina Fey

  Baby, School, Boss

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• One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.

  Ashley Montagu

  School, College, Littles

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• Now a cholera epidemic was sweeping through Southeast Asia and south Asia in the early 1970s, so I started medical school and I joined a laboratory to work on this.

  Peter Agre

  School, Epidemics, Asia

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• But I spent just two calendar years at Cornell University, though it was covering more than three years of work, and then went to medical school and did become interested in psychiatry, and even helped form a kind of psychiatry club in medical school.

  Robert Jay Lifton

  School, Years, Two

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• I completed medical school at Loma Linda University School of Medicine in 1984.

  Samuel Wilson

  School, Medicine, Medical

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• I wanted to go to medical school. But, I never got a college scholarship.

  Edwin Moses

  School, College, Medical

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• I think it's a very valuable thing for a doctor to learn how to do research, to learn how to approach research, something there isn't time to teach them in medical school. They don't really learn how to approach a problem, and yet diagnosis is a problem; and I think that year spent in research is extremely valuable to them.

  Gertrude B. Elion

  School, Science, Thinking

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• I learned about a lot of things in medical school, but mortality wasn't one of them.

  Atul Gawande

  School, Medical, Mortality

  Atul Gawande (2014). “Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End”, p.7, Metropolitan Books

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• Sometimes on the way to your dream you get lost and find a better one. It is okay to change your mind. If you thought you always wanted to be a doctor only to discover after medical school that what you really wanted to do was open a bakery--open a bakery. Life is too short not to follow your heart.

  Lisa Hammond

  Dream, Life Is Too Short, School

  Lisa Hammond (2007). “Permission to Dream: Stepping Stones to Create a Life of Passion and Purpose”, p.30, Conari Press

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• Blacks can get into medical school with a lower grade ... If that's true, a Jew should be able to play basketball with a lower net.

  Jackie Mason

  Basketball, School, Play

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• If belief in evolution is a requirement to be a real scientist, it’s interesting to consider a quote from Dr. Marc Kirschner, founding chair of the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School:
  “In fact, over the last 100 years, almost all of biology has proceeded independent of evolution, except evolutionary biology itself. Molecular biology, biochemistry, physiology, have not taken evolution into account at all.

  Marc Kirschner

  Real, Taken, School

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• Modern medicine is not scientific, it is full of prejudice, illogic and susceptible to advertising. Doctors are not taught to reason, they are programmed to believe in whatever their medical schools teach them and the leading doctors tell them. Over the past 20 years the drug companies, with their enormous wealth, have taken medicine over and now control its research, what is taught and the information released to the public.

  Abram Hoffer

  Believe, Taken, School

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• There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so much by what he said but by what he did, that there is an intimate relation between curing and caring.

  Ashley Montagu

  School, Caring, Faculty Members

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• Nobody had ever told me junk food was bad for me. Four years of medical school, and four years of internship and residency, and I never thought anything was wrong with eating sweet rolls and doughnuts, and potatoes, and bread, and sweets.

  Robert Atkins

  Sweet, School, Years

  "What the doctor ordered" by William Leith, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2003.

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• I tell [medical students] that they are the luckiest persons on earth to be in medical school, and to forget all this worry about H.M.O.'s and keep your eye on helping the patient. It's the best time ever to be a doctor because you can heal and treat conditions that were untreatable even a couple of years ago.

  Joseph Murray

  Couple, School, Eye

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• Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school - not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.

  Abraham Verghese

  School, Years, Cynical

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• I wish medical schools helped us to analyze our healthy and unhealthy reasons for becoming doctors.

  Bernie Siegel

  School, Doctors, Healthy

  "Why We Become Doctors" by Bernie Siegel, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 5, 2010.

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• We've gotten commitments from medical schools, from nursing schools, to step up and increase that pool of knowledgeable individuals.

  Michelle Obama

  Commitment, School, Nursing

  Source: www.wbur.org

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

  MaryJanice Davidson

  School, Math, Gone

  MaryJanice Davidson (2004). “Undead and Unwed: A Queen Betsy Novel”, p.105, Penguin

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• As I came through medical school, it was very exciting because physicians were reaching out to each other, between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, and sort of helping to build bridges among, you know, people, people who were not allowing our government to pit us against each other and to actually take us to the brink of nuclear war. And Physicians for Social Responsibility wound up getting a Peace Prize, a Nobel Peace Prize, which they shared with International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War.

  Jill Stein

  War, School, Responsibility

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• By Mamun's time medical schools were extremely active in Baghdad. The first free public hospital was opened in Baghdad during the Caliphate of Haroon-ar-Rashid. As the system developed, physicians and surgeons were appointed who gave lectures to medical students and issued diplomas to those who were considered qualified to practice. The first hospital in Egypt was opened in 872 AD and thereafter public hospitals sprang up all over the empire from Spain and the Maghrib to Persia.

  John Bagot Glubb

  Islamic, School, Egypt

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