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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

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

— Durjoy Datta

Medicine is learned by the bedside and not in the classroom. Let not your conceptions of disease come from words heard in the lecture…

— William Osler

Wouldn't it be great,as Scott Peck suggests, if all medical students had to undergo the symptoms and feeling of a spectrum of illnesses. From…

— William S. Burroughs

The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians because they are ignorant of the whole... For the part can never be well unless…

— Plato

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 medical school, it's quite possible to get taught that you can diagnose everybody and treat everything. But then you get out in the…

— Barry Marshall

I knew at university that medicine was just not for me. I saved many lives by not being a doctor!

— Zubin Mehta

The doctor is to be feared more than the disease

— Latin Proverb

When medical students focus on helping others, they're able to weather the slings and arrows of long hours and devastating health outcomes: they know…

— Adam Grant

Meet the disorder in the outset, the medicine may be too late, when the disease has gained ground through delay.

— Ovid

The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the…

— Ashley Montagu