Compassion Quote by Michael J. Collins

“No one in medical school or beyond is charged with having to be compassionate toward you, so you must learn to do it yourself.”

— Jeremy Spiegel

“It was like the old joke: the operation was a success but the patient died. Theories and goals of education don’t matter a whit…

— Lou Ann Walker

“It's an incredible paradox that being a doctor is so degrading and yet is so valued by society”

— Samuel Shem

“I was truly shocked to discover how bad the modern medical profession really is!”

— Steven Magee

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

— Durjoy Datta

“I guessed that he was one of those ambitious young physicians who more and more fill the profession, opportunists with a fashionable hoodlum image,…

— J.G. Ballard

“we all remain students of medicine and servants to others.”

— Warner M. Burch

“Most doctors are prisoners of their education and shackled by their profession.”

— Richard Diaz

“Course I didn't want to be a doctor. I was going to be president only I kept it secret.”

— Rita Mae Brown

“Cursed medical education.It's bad enough to suffer from one's overindulgences.It's worse when you have to worry about obscure pathologies that haunt you every time…

— Anonymous

“Doctors possessed true power. They could salvage the unsalvageable; they could extend life and raise the level of comfort for those in their final…

— Glen Krisch

“The road to medical school started with a job mowing lawns I was far from sure I could handle.”

— Mark Vonnegut