Also Quote by Abraham Verghese

Only those who regard healing as the ultimate goal of their efforts can, therefore, be designated as physicians.

— Rudolf Virchow

Physicians need to be good technicians and know how to prescribe, but for healing to occur they also need to incorporate philosophy and spirituality…

— Bernie Siegel

I grew up in this medical atmosphere, and thought I wanted to be a doctor. I was a hippie, didn't have a lot of…

— Dian Hanson

I was drawn to medicine because I'm fond of serving. In college, we go to the orphanage every week, see patients first-hand.

— Sai Pallavi

“Certainly the primary imperative of a physician is to be skilled in medical science, but if he or she does not probe a patient's…

— Jerome E. Groopman

I chose a career in medicine because I wanted a tangible skill with which to serve people. And so my role as a physician…

— Kent Brantly

Practicing medicine is not only my vocation, it gives me an opportunity to continue to be in direct contact with people, to see them…

— Tabare Vazquez

For a long time, I thought I would like to be a doctor. Such a good profession. So explicitly good. Never a waste of…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we…

— Abraham Verghese

The field of medicine is one you have to have a lot of dedication to enter.

— Mikhail Varshavski

I always knew I wanted to be a doctor, but I also knew that being a doctor meant more than treating just the patient…

— Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many…

— J. G. Ballard