Medicine Quote by Christina Maslach

“What [my patients] care about is my presence or absence as a human being. They gauge with unerring eye whether I am grounded enough…

— Gabor Maté

The less experienced a doctor is, the higher are his notions of professional dignity . . .

— Arthur Conan Doyle

The best doctors found a middle position where they were neither overwhelmed by their feelings nor estranged from them. That was the most difficult…

— Michael Crichton

“This leaves us with the urgent question: How can we be or become a caring community, a community of people not trying to cover…

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

What should be the glory of the profession is that a doctor should be able to meet his patients with no financial anxiety.

— Aneurin Bevan

“The core predicament of medicine - the thing that makes being a patient so wrenching, being a doctor so difficult, and being a part…

— Atul Gawande

Detachment is not about refusing to feel or not caring or turning away from those you love. Detachment is profoundly honest, grounded firmly in…

— Sharon Salzberg

Successful physicians have usually cultivated the eloquence necessary to talk their way into, or out of responsibility, as each patient's case demands.

— Boghos L Artinian MD

“Getting to know patients is what I do. I learn about their deepest fears and secrets. A professional relationship becomes a personal one. It…

— Michael Robotham

“I had just dropped out of medicine in my first year of residency, a few months shy of becoming a licensed M.D. I'd discovered…

— Barbara Kingsolver

The ideal doctor is patient.

— Robert Haven Schauffler

What we have now is doctors who are actually better technically at what they're doing in their specialty than 30 or 40 years ago,…

— Mehmet Oz