Focus Quote by Adam Grant

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

Once you start to ask patients about their priorities, you discover what they're living for. Once you uncover that, it helps you, as a…

— Atul Gawande

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

To have a group of cloistered clinicians away completely from the broad current of professional life would be bad for teacher and worse for…

— William Osler

“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

“First lesson taught to doctors in medical college: "Be emotional about the disease, not the patient.”

— Durjoy Datta

I tell [medical students] that they are the luckiest persons on earth to be in medical school, and to forget all this worry about…

— Joseph Murray

“In a study of more than six hundred medical students in Belgium, the students with the lowest grades had unusually high scores on giver…

— Adam M. Grant

A suprising number of physicians manage to continue to care about persons even after the rigors of medical training.

— Mary Catherine Bateson

“Even doctors — or perhaps especially doctors — need to be touched by something personally to understand the suffering of others. We’ve been taught…

— Jane Wilson-Howarth

There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so much by…

— Ashley Montagu

Let's not kid ourselves. Whatever we diagnose, most patients, if they don't die, get well by themselves. Our job is mainly to try to…

— Diane Frolov