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Medical Quotes

Medicine, from career choice to childhood play.

This medical quotes collection includes a family pushing toward a medical career while music pulled harder, alongside a childhood spent playing doctor with dolls on secret missions. See Doctor quotes for related themes.

When I was 10 years old, a cousin of mine took me on a tour of his medical school. And as a special treat, he took me to the pathology lab and took a real human brain out of the...

Quotes by Aditi Shankardass

My parents were actors. And so I was born in New York City, and when I was 7, they quit acting and went back to medical school at the University Of Chicago.

Quotes by Adam Pally

When medical students focus on helping others, they're able to weather the slings and arrows of long hours and devastating health outcomes: they know their colleagues and patients are depending on them.

Quotes by Adam Grant

Henrietta Lacks' cells are immortal. They are known as the HeLa cell line, and they have become deeply involved in all sorts of medical and genetic research - sometimes in the most unexpected ways.

Quotes by Adam Curtis

Care Quotes

Patents have a place in medical science - for new inventions that advance the state of knowledge.

Quotes by Adam Cohen

After I spent my compulsory army service in the 'top secret office' of the Medical Forces, where I was fortunate to be exposed to clinical and medical issues, I enrolled to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Quotes by Ada Yonath

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

Quotes by Abraham Verghese

I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country, and but for their services, I'm not sure how exactly we could manage.

Quotes by Abraham Verghese

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...

Quotes by Abraham Verghese

Doctor Quotes

What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it - the process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialized language, can ironically make one lose sight of...

Quotes by Abraham Verghese

Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be. I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around, but he carried it off so...

Quotes by Abraham Verghese

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

Quotes by Abe Lemons

You know what they call the fellow who finishes last in his medical school graduating class? They call him 'Doctor.'

Quotes by Abe Lemons

An abortion is expensive. Its cost includes pay for the doctor, supporting medical staff, their health benefits packages, and malpractice insurance.

Quotes by Abby Johnson

Health Quotes

Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

Quotes by Abbie Hoffman

The worst position you are in is when you are on the medical bed, and you can't get out on that training pitch.

Quotes by Aaron Ramsey

I studied at the Hebrew University Medical Faculty, graduated, and was an Israel Defense Forces' combat physician on a Navy ship.

Quotes by Aaron Ciechanover

Medical costs are of concern, both in developing and developed countries.

Quotes by A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

My parents had chosen the medical profession for me. I even studied a few semesters at St Xavier's College, but at the back of my mind, I always wanted to be a musician like my father.

Quotes by Zubin Mehta

Me Quotes

Whether you need technology in your body for medical reasons, or just want it to augment your senses or for experimentation, there are numerous fronts that open-source advocates are working on to make implantable technology safer, cheaper, and available to...

Quotes by Zoe Quinn

Frequently Asked Questions

What different medical-related memories and ideas appear in these quotes?
This mix covers a family's expectation of a medical career versus a personal pull toward music, a childhood spent playing with doctor dolls, a look at open-source work on medical body technology, and a reflection on why cop, lawyer, and medical shows are popular - because they show ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances.
Is there a quote about parents choosing a medical career for someone who wanted to be a musician?
Yes: "My parents had chosen the medical profession for me. I even studied a few semesters at St Xavier's College, but at the back of my mind, I always wanted to be a musician like my father."
Is there a quote about playing with doctor dolls as a child?
Yes: "Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo."
Is there a quote about why medical shows are popular on TV?
One quote suggests that medical shows, along with cop and lawyer shows, are popular because they let us see how ordinary people behave in extraordinary circumstances.
Where can I find more quotes like these?
If you like these, check out our Doctor and Health quotes pages.

Other entries look at open-source medical technology beyond strict treatment uses, and why medical shows keep audiences hooked on ordinary people in extraordinary situations. Explore Health quotes or Care quotes.