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  • 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.

  • A respect for authority is the basis for most medical education. Students may become so used to memorising that they become prey to the illusion that the reason for learning to parrot lectures and textbooks is that they are the 'truth'.

    Truth   Textbooks   May  
  • ...Only physicians are likely to be regarded as competent to judge the qualifications of potential physicians, so licensing boards in the various states...are typically composed..of physicians,...members of the AMA. The boards, or the state legislatures...give the AMA the power to influence the number of persons admitted to practice (by) lengthy training,...(and) the list of 'approved' schools and hospitals (which) is generally identical with the list issued by the Council on Medical Education and Hospitals of the AMA.

    School   Dark   Practice  
  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • Any person, institution or organization that conveys bodies or parts of bodies into or out of the state for medical education or research purposes shall notify the Anatomical Board of such intent and receive approval from the board.

  • Nurses serve their patients in the most important capacities. We know that they serve as our first lines of communication when something goes wrong or when we are concerned about health.

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

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

    School   Years   Cynical  
  • It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.

  • I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for.

  • Medical school education and post graduate education emphasize thoroughness.

    "Obama's Health Rationer-in-Chief" by Betsy McCaughey, www.wsj.com. August 27, 2009.
  • During my medical education at the University of Basle I found vivisection horrible, barbarous and above all unnecessary

  • 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.

    Source: muse.jhu.edu
  • Medical education does not exist to provide students with a way of making a living, but to ensure the health of the community.

    Community   Doe   Way  
  • The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.

  • I tried to change the conventional paradigm, for example, by insisting on the reality of mind-body interaction, by stressing the importance of natural therapies, by focusing attention on lifestyle issues, by looking at worthwhile aspects of alternative medicine. Many people have been threatened by that. Doctors especially tend to think that they know everything about the human body, and don't realize that medical education has really omitted many very important subjects.

    "Dr. Andrew Weil: On Changing the Current Paradigm in Healthcare". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
  • The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

  • Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organised to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.

    "Medical Nemesis". Book by Ivan Illich, 1976.
  • The dilemma of modern medicine, and the underlying central flaw in medical education and, most of all, in the training of interns, is the irresistible drive to do something, anything. It is expected by patients and too often agreed to by their doctors, in the face of ignorance.

  • To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

    Art   War   Get Well Soon  
    Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”
  • Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

    Health   Medicine   Nurse  
    Tristia
  • A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

    Funny   Running   Witty  
  • Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

    "Books: The Great Gadfly". "TIME" Magazine, October 8, 1965.
  • 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.

  • My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.

    Funny   Life   Hilarious  
  • 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.

    Baby   School   Boss  
  • 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 well.

    "A Novel That's the Best Medicine". Interview with Tina Brown, www.thedailybeast.com. February 11, 2009.
  • Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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