Dilemma Quote by Lewis Thomas

Intern is not just a gripping tale of becoming a doctor. It's also a courageous critique, a saga of an immigrant family living (at…

— Melvin Konner

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

“Expertise is the mantra of modern medicine. In the early twentieth century, you needed only a high school diploma and a one-year medical degree…

— Atul Gawande

Intern will resonate not only with doctors, but with anyone who has struggled with the grand question 'What should I do with my life?'…

— Akhil Sharma

The education of doctors is a major issue that needs to be addressed.

— Tasuku Honjo

I have little interest in a surgeon who says, "I learned that when I was in medical school. Why should I revisit it?" or…

— Carol Ann Tomlinson

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

Expertise is the mantra of modern medicine.

— Atul Gawande

“The medical profession is unconsciously irritated by lay knowledge.”

— John Steinbeck

If there weren't so many professors, medicine would be much easier.

— August Bier

We look for medicine to be an orderly field of knowledge and procedure. But it is not. It is an imperfect science, an enterprise…

— Atul Gawande

We ought to observe that practice which is the hardest of all-especially for young physicians-we ought to throw in no medicine at all-to abstain-to…

— John Randolph of Roanoke