Able Quote by Magdi Yacoub

Medicine people are truly citizens of two worlds, and those who continue to walk the path of medicine power learn to keep their balance…

— Paula Gunn Allen

I was sure I was going to be a doctor of global health or tropical medicine in some underdeveloped country.

— Thomas R. Insel

My desire to be a physician had a lot to do with that sense of medicine as a ministry of healing, not just a…

— Abraham Verghese

The medical profession is - and knows itself to be - endemically conservative and conformist.

— Margaret Heffernan

I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.

— Randy Schekman

In every thing that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.

— Charles Lamb

I always try to be a universalist, not a specialist.

— Willy Bogner, Jr

I am sure that I have been much more useful to society as a medical physicist.

— John Cameron

We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service…

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity…

— Abraham Verghese

As 17th U.S. Surgeon General, I was privileged to serve as the nation's doctor. I focused much of my time on promoting proven programs…

— Richard Carmona

I think that one of the main privileges of what I do, which I am just starting to learn, is to have the ability…

— Chris Cornell