Attitude Quote by Abraham Flexner

“Medical education does not exist to provide student with a way of making a living, but to ensure the health of the community.”

— Rudolf Virchow

Medical school education and post graduate education emphasize thoroughness.

— Ezekiel Emanuel

We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the…

— Abraham Verghese

Medical School is the next step in my career. There is no doubt about that. My mind is still hungry and I want to…

— Chris Algieri

I think what medical training does is it gives you the language, the tools to look up facts. I think medical training gives you…

— Tess Gerritsen

Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place…

— Hippocrates

The education of doctors is a major issue that needs to be addressed.

— Tasuku Honjo

What you need to learn how to do is analyze situations and do differential diagnoses and understand the principle and the concepts rather than…

— Leroy Hood

There are many differences between medicine and teaching, but they have much in common. Both involve craft and personal expertise, learned through experience; but…

— Ben Goldacre

“The establishment of medical studies in the university (as opposed to some other possible institutional home) created a linkage between medicine and other branches…

— David C. Lindberg

When I went to the University, the medical school was the only place where one could hope to find the means to study life,…

— Albert Claude

“Expertise is the mantra of modern medicine. In the early twentieth century, you needed only a high school diploma and a one-year medical degree…

— Atul Gawande