Clinicals Quote 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…

— Abraham Verghese

Nobody just leaves medical school, especially given it's fiercely competitive to get in. But I had a sister who was a doctor, another who…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I saw my friends in medical school seeming to be more engaged with the real world. That provoked a sort of jealousy, and I…

— Harold E. Varmus

In medical school, students are immersed in the realm of medical ethics. It's where new doctors study, learn right and wrong, ask tough questions,…

— Ralph Northam

Med students panic their first year when they learn all the diseases. It's not until the second year that they learn the cures.

— Anonymous

I wish medical schools helped us to analyze our healthy and unhealthy reasons for becoming doctors.

— Bernie Siegel

“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 education is not just a program for building knowledge and skills in its recipients... it is also an experience which creates attitudes and…

— Abraham Flexner

“By the end of medical school, most students tended to focus on "lifestyle" specialities - those with more humane hours, higher salaries, and lower…

— Paul Kalanithi

I didn't think I was going to school to be a doctor - no offense, but that wasn't me.

— Gerald Green

“No one in medical school or beyond is charged with having to be compassionate toward you, so you must learn to do it yourself.”

— Jeremy Spiegel

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