Medical school education and post graduate education emphasize thoroughness. — Ezekiel Emanuel
I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine. — Karl von Frisch
Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage. — Hippocrates
Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor. — Abe Lemons
Medical education does not exist to provide students with a way of making a living, but to ensure the health of the community. — Rudolf Virchow
Medical education is not just a program for building knowledge and skills in its recipients... it is also an experience which creates attitudes and expectations. — Abraham Flexner
When I got out of high school, I thought, I'll take a year or two off and play the clubs, get this out of my system, and then go to med school. — Gregg Allman
The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head. — William Osler
I'm a medical doctor and a biomedical scientist. — Steven Hatfill
Creating health is different to treating disease. Unfortunately, the vast majority of medical schools teach us only one of these skills, rather than both of them. — Rangan Chatterjee
Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts. — Hippocrates
You can take a school like the University of Colorado, with a selective admission standard. It has a better caliber student going in, so you ought to have a better caliber coming out. — Roy Romer
The smartest billionaires I know never finished high school. I got my degree and my doctorate on the street and an advanced degree in jail. — Tommy Chong
The young doctor should look about early for an avocation, a pastime, that will take him away from patients, pills, and potions. — William Osler
In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing. — Thorstein Veblen
Short Medical School Quotes
The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books — Sayings
Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability. — William Osler
He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war. — Hippocrates
Medicine is intention. Those who are proficient at using intention are good doctors. — Sun Simiao
We don't stop going to school when we graduate. — Carol Burnett
It is easier to build up a child than it is to repair and adult.
Congratulations Quotes
Scott Bullett, as he takes left field, is getting congratulations from everybody. He and his daughter are parents of a new baby. — Harry Caray
The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication. — Harold Geneen
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. — Arthur Schopenhauer
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down "happy". They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life
Failure is success if we learn from it. — Malcolm Forbes
The path to success is to take massive, determined action. — Tony Robbins
Of course there is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life, and what it brings — Arthur Rubinstein
Children are not a distraction from more inportant work. They are the most important work.
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young. — Theodore Roosevelt
I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure. — Og Mandino
You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. — Dr. Seuss
Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells. — Elizabeth Taylor
It is easier to build up a child than it is to repair an adult.
It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame. — Oscar Wilde
The more things change, the more they stay different. — Melissa de la Cruz
Boundaries don't keep other people out, they fence you in. — Shonda Rhimes
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
We only see what we want to see, and hear what we want to hear — Miguel Angel Ruiz
To unwind after training, I love to have a long hot soak in the bath, then veg out on the sofa with a box set. I'm a box-set junkie! I absolutely love 'Grey's Anatomy.' — Jessica Ennis
Desire leaves us heartbroken; it wears us out. — Ellen Pompeo
What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of 'CSI' and 'Grey's Anatomy' episodes with pints of ice cream. — Taylor Swift
Medical Education Quotes
The hardest conviction to get into the mind of a beginner is that the education upon which he is engaged is not a college course, not a medical course, but a life course, for which the work of a few years under teachers is but a preparation. — William Osler
Just the actual physical ability to hold four instruments simultaneously and do some of the things that Vivien was able to do is mind blowing to any surgeon. He never went to medical school and he became one of the great teachers of medicine himself, people are just amazed. — Mary, Queen of Scots
We live in a society that penalizes highly creative individuals for their non-conformist autonomy. This makes the teaching of problem solving in design both discouraging and difficult. A...student (has) massive blocks against new ways of thinking, engendered by some 16 years of mis-education. — Victor Papanek
The difference between school and life? In school, you're thought a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.
Why did we ever force doctors to learn their profession in this exhausting, sleepless way? The answer originates with the esteemed physician William Stewart Halsted, MD, who was also a helpless drug addict. — Matthew Walker
The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles. — William Osler
I desire no other epitaph - no hurry about it, I may say - than the statement that I taught medical students in the wards, as I regard this as by far the most useful and important work I have been called upon to do. — William Osler
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
Through my own struggles with depression, I discovered that knowledge, therapy, medication and education can provide the strength to get through it in one piece. — Susan Polis Schutz
The Public provides freedom...Individualism begins after the roads are built, after individualists have had an education, after medical research has cured their diseases. — George Lakoff
We shall one day learn to supersede politics by education. What we call our root-and-branch reforms of slavery, war, gambling, intemperance, is only medicating the symptoms. We must begin higher up, namely, in education. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school - not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical. — Abraham Verghese
Medical Training Quotes
In states where no regulation exists, anyone is permitted to perform medical imaging and radiation therapy procedures, sometimes after just a few weeks of on-the-job training. — Charles W. Pickering
I'm a medical doctor by training. I'm a physician, not a politician. And I'm in this as a mother on fire. — Jill Stein
The medicalization of early diagnosis not only hampers and discourages preventative health-care but it also trains the patient-to-be to function in the meantime as an acolyte to his doctor. He learns to depend on the physician in sickness and in health. He turns into a life-long patient. — Ivan Illich
The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
The other thing is that if you rely solely on medication to manage depression or anxiety, for example, you have done nothing to train the mind, so that when you come off the medication, you are just as vulnerable to a relapse as though you had never taken the medication. — Daniel Goleman
I think the smartest thing for people to do to manage very distressing emotions is to take a medication if it helps, but don't do only that. You also need to train your mind. — Daniel Goleman
Because of my medical and ideological training, I am accustomed to saying that life is adaptation and symbiosis. — Tabare Vazquez
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in high school.
More than half of all great remedies known to medical history have come from empiricists...'irregulars'...of no or little scientific training. There is no reason to believe that conditions have essentially changed. — Alexis Carrel
Because I am not formally trained in the medical sciences, I can bring in new ideas to AIDS research and the cross-fertilization of ideas from different fields could be a valuable contribution to finding the cure for AIDS. — Philip Emeagwali
But we need a medical community that's trained and knowledgeable and working on advancement. — Michelle Obama
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. — Gerald Griffin
Medical Profession Quotes
The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the disease and once from the medicine. — William Osler
The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance. — Prince Charles
Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises. — Margaret Sanger
Wisdom is not a product of schooling, but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised. — Colin Firth
Women have suffered too much from the Conspiracy of Silence to allow that conspiracy to last one minute longer. It has been an established and admitted rule in the medical profession to keep a wife in ignorance of the fact that she has become the victim of venereal disease. — Christabel Pankhurst
One of the most dangerous and best-kept secrets of the medical profession is the epidemic of anesthesiologists who are addicted to their own drugs. — Christopher McDougall
If you don't pass your values on to your kids, someone else will.
Medicine is only palliative. For behind disease lies the cause and this cause NO DRUG can reach. — Silas Weir Mitchell
When I was contemplating medical school after graduating from Knox, several people suggested that nursing was a more suitable profession for women. My own mother discouraged me from becoming a doctor. But this is not why I became a nurse instead! — Mary Pope Osborne
First of all, I hated the medical profession. Medical education in Egypt was taken from the British, French, colonial educational system. And it's very, very lacking - there is no sexology. I never read the word clitoris in any medical book when I was educated. — Nawal El Saadawi
The whole thrust of science and the medical profession is to try and prevent it from happening, to try to prolong life, to keep you from dying, to keep you from getting older, to rejuvenate you. I mean, that's everybody's wish. The fountain of youth is everybody's sought-after thing. — Woody Allen
Graduate School Quotes
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined... — Henry David Thoreau
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. — Dr. Seuss
The most important day of a person's education is the first day of school, not Graduation Day. — Harry Wong
Go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here. — Neil Gaiman
Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. — Ella Fitzgerald
Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning. — Orrin Hatch
Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated. — Erma Bombeck
At commencement you wear your square-shaped mortarboards.My hope is that from time to time you will let your minds be bold, and wear sombreros. — Paul A. Freund
I went to graduate school at Harvard for one year I worked in the state legislature in Sacramento for one year. I taught school in Compton for two years. — Harry Shearer
Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars. — Richard Halliburton
Law School Quotes
Stanford's law school application wasn't the standard combination of college transcript, LSAT score, and essays. — James David Vance
Here's Williams' roadmap out of poverty: Complete high school; get a job, any kind of a job; get married before having children; and be a law-abiding citizen. Among both black and white Americans so described, the poverty rate is in the single digits. — Walter E. Williams
And yet politicians reject a law that would require schools to inform parents if their kids change their gender identity at school. — Vivek Ramaswamy
In law school they teach a very different way of thinking, in that you need to take both the plaintiff’s and the defendant’s sides of the issue, both sides of the issue, and run down the arguments as if each one of them is true. — Nick Szabo
When I started law school in 2010, I would have called myself an atheist. When I graduated law school in 2013, I was exploring my faith again. A lot changed in those three years. — James David Vance
My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superintendent in northern California, and my son-in-law is a high school principal. I am surrounded. — Loni Anderson
If we do not get No Child Left Behind right for Limited English Proficient students, the law will be a failure for most schools in the 15th Congressional District, and for many across the nation. — Ruben Hinojosa
I don't think the Constitution is studied almost anywhere, including law schools. In law schools, what they study is what the court said about the Constitution. They study the opinions. They don't study the Constitution itself. — Robert Bork
If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause. — Charles Morgan
In 1933, the Nazis came to power and the more systematic persecution of the Jews followed quickly. Laws were enacted which excluded Jewish children from higher education in public schools. — Jack Steinberger
Becoming A Doctor Quotes
There's no diploma in the world that declares you as an artist—it's not like becoming a doctor. You can declare yourself an artist and then figure out how to be an artist. — Kara Walker
A doctor who keeps a person from becoming ill deserves more merit than one who cures him. — Vincent de Paul
Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him. — Charlie Byrd
As a doctor, he knew that there is no physiological reason for all men and women over the age of 40 to become overweight. — Wim Hof
As far as service goes, it can take the form of a million things. To do service, you don't have to be a doctor working in the slums for free, or become a social worker. Your position in life and what you do doesn't matter as much as how you do what you do. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
I always prefer to work in the studio. It isolates people from their environment. They become in a sense... symbolic of themselves. I often feel that people come to me to be photographed as they would go to a doctor or a fortune teller - to find out how they are. — Richard Avedon
My concentration was really on getting to university and becoming a doctor. My parents let me know that school marks were important. Achievement was something which came by hard work. — Roger Bannister
Rational order in the technological world can be as fascinating as the fetishes of a Congo witch-doctor - scientific phenomena become significant images. — Eduardo Paolozzi
According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for. — Allen Tate
The doctor used to tell me that every person about to die becomes a music box playing the melody that best describes his life, his character, and his hopes. For some, it's a popular waltz; for others, a march. — Patrick Modiano
Nursing School Quotes
It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a closed mind. — Clara Barton
The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me. — Clara Barton
The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest. — William Osler
The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe. — Florence Nightingale
For us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back. The more experience we gain, the more progress we can make. — Florence Nightingale
Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work. — Florence Nightingale
Nursing encompasses an art, a humanistic orientation, a feeling for the value of the individual, and an intuitive sense of ethics, and of the appropriateness of action taken. — Myrtle Aydelotte
Man who want pretty nurse, must be patient. — Confucius
My experience as a school nurse taught me that we need to make a concerted effort, all of us, to increase physical fitness activity among our children and to encourage all Americans to adopt a healthier diet that includes fruits and vegetables, but there is more. — Lois Capps
I was raised to volunteer: nursing homes, clinics, church nurseries, school, everywhere that could use help. It's such an intrinsic part of me, to use my life to help improve the quality of others. — Debby Ryan
I must remind you that starving a child is violence. Suppressing a culture is violence. Neglecting school children is violence. Punishing a mother and her family is violence. Discrimination against a working man is violence. Ghetto housing is violence. Ignoring medical need is violence. Contempt for poverty is violence. — Coretta Scott King
I personally lost 50 pounds not by restricting my food but by adding more fiber-rich foods to my diet and eating them until I felt full. I was shocked to find that the solution was abundance, not restriction—and that food quality was more important than food quantity. Why hadn’t I been taught this in medical school? — Will Bulsiewicz
Why aren’t molecular cardiologists at medical schools discussing the Shreckenberg study? It’s relevant to many of their patients. — Peter A. McCullough
Just the actual physical ability to hold four instruments simultaneously and do some of the things that Vivien was able to do is mind blowing to any surgeon. He never went to medical school and he became one of the great teachers of medicine himself, people are just amazed. — Mary Stuart Masterson
In my own life, I decided to leave meat off my plate in medical school, but was a bit slow to realise that dairy products and eggs are not health foods either. — Neal Barnard
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
The efforts of the medical profession in the US to control:...its...job it proposes to monopolize. It has been carrying on a vigorous campaign all over the country against new methods and schools of healing because it wants the business...I have watched this medical profession for a long time and it bears watching. — Clarence Darrow
As my mentor in Medical School, Dr William Strong taught me: Never wear a white coat; it separates you from a fellow human being. I never have from that day on. You are your patients guide, counselor, and defender, not their ruler and dictator. — Steven Gundry
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
A study conducted by the State University of New York at Buffalo Medical School suggested that in times of stress a dog is likely to be more help in calming you down than a spouse or partner. Most dog owners can guess the reason why: dogs never judge us and never compete with us. — Marjorie Garber
If Beethoven were sent to nursery school today, they would medicate him, and he would be a postal clerk. — Leon Botstein
At 20, I realized that I could not possibly adjust to a feminine role as conceived by my father and asked him permission to engage in a professional career. In eight months I filled my gaps in Latin, Greek and mathematics, graduated from high school, and entered medical school in Turin. — Rita Levi-Montalcini
The pupil's imagination is 'schooled' to accept service in place of value. Medical treatment is mistaken for health care, social work for the improvement of community life, police protection for safety, military poise for national security, the rat race for productive work. — Ivan Illich
I have little interest in a surgeon who says, "I learned that when I was in medical school. Why should I revisit it?" or who says, "I've done that operation the same way for ten years. Don't bother me with new approaches." I see teaching in the same way. — Carol Ann Tomlinson
You'd think someone who'd been to medical school would be able to hear through a stethoscope that somebody was empty inside. — Jodi Picoult
If I had as many love affairs as I've been given credit for, I'd be in a jar at the Harvard Medical School. — Frank Sinatra
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 specialised language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve; empathy can be replaced by cynicism. — Abraham Verghese
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
No one teaches you how to think about money in medical school or residency. Yet, from the moment you start practicing, you must think about it. You must consider what is covered for a patient and what is not. — Atul Gawande
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
In my second year, after moving to the Medical School, I began the courses of Anatomy and Physiology. I had begun to see that I was interested in cells and their functions. — Sydney Brenner
My most important projects have been the building and maintaining of schools and medical clinics for my dear friends in the Himalaya and helping restore their beautiful monasteries, too. — Edmund Hillary
I set up a laboratory in the Department of Physiology in the Medical School in South Africa and begin to try to find a bacteriophage system which we might use to solve the genetic code. — Sydney Brenner
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
The fact that he didn't get credit for a while is more the story of social injustice. But his own spirit wasn't driven by that, and wasn't dependent upon that. He just wished he had the cash to go to medical school. — Mary Stuart Masterson
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
My dream is that every child has enough food to eat, good medical care, and the chance to go to school and even attend college. — Bill Gates
On bad days, I think I'd like to be a plastic surgeon who goes to Third World countries and operates on children in villages with airlifts, and then I think, 'Yeah, right, I'm going to go back to undergraduate school and take all the biology I missed and then go to medical school.' No. No. — Tama Janowitz
I got into medical school at the University of California in San Francisco and did well. A lot of smart kids in medical school, and believe me, I wasn't not nearly the smartest one, but I was the most focused and the happiest kid in medical school. In 1979, I graduated as the valedictorian and was honored with the Gold Cane Award. — Richard Carmona
It took me until my teenage years to realize that I was medicating with music. I was pushing back against my stupid school uniform, instructors who called me by my last name and my classmates, who, while friendly enough, were not at all inspiring. — Henry Rollins
I wish medical schools helped us to analyze our healthy and unhealthy reasons for becoming doctors. — Bernie Siegel
I founded a launch company called International Microspace when I graduated medical school in 1989. We were trying to build a microsatellite launcher. — Peter Diamandis
I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college, then went to medical school. I've never had any formal training in writing. So what I know about writing, I know from my own instincts, and whatever the narrative voice is in my own head. — Khaled Hosseini
I've come up with the three things you never want to hear at your kid's parent/teacher conference. Number one: 'You're only responsible for the first $10,000 worth of damage.' Number two: 'We have medication for this.' And number three: 'It was more than an ounce and he was less than a hundred yards from the school.' — Sayings
Failure to properly control our borders costs citizens in many ways: schools become overcrowded, medical resources are stretched too thin, other government services are overtaxed, and taxes increase further. — Zach Wamp
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
I learned about a lot of things in medical school, but mortality wasn't one of them. — Atul Gawande
If managing were simple, why do the majority of businesses fail? If physicians had the same success rate as executives, the medical schools would have been shuttered long ago. — Michael Martin Hammer
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