Able Quote by Janine di Giovanni

It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they…

— J. R. Martinez

Medicine would be the ideal profession if it did not involve giving pain.

— Samuel Hopkins Adams

I can do something about people who need me, who have been injured. So the biggest thing about being a doctor is my education…

— Fiona Wood

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

— Zubin Mehta

I treated as few patients as I could as a medical student, and I never practiced medicine.

— Severo Ochoa

Losing so many patients certainly was difficult, but it didn't make me feel like a failure as a physician, because I had learned that…

— Kent Brantly

I was definitely seriously affected [with wifw and daughter deaths], no question, but I learnt to devote myself to the things that we'd been…

— Edmund Hillary

So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital. There were fifty-four women and…

— Agnes Smedley

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

I was a hard person to deal with as a patient.

— Paul Nassif

Look around you: there is not a doctor who desires the health of his friends, not a soldier who desires peace for his country.

— Philemon

I had the privilege of practicing medicine in the early '60s, before we had any government. It worked rather well, and there was nobody…

— Ron Paul