Accepted Quote by Robert Jarvik

My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science teacher, and since he was…

— David Soul

My father was a doctor, an army cardiologist.

— Deepak Chopra

I always wanted to be a surgeon, because I had a lot of admiration for my father, who is also a surgeon. I also…

— Magdi Yacoub

I wanted to be a surgeon, possibly influenced by the qualities of our family doctor who cared for our childhood ailments.

— Joseph Murray

I always wanted to follow in the footsteps of my maternal grandfather, who was a doctor.

— Hasnat Khan

I got an opportunity to do varied roles so early in my career.

— Navya Nair

My father was an important person, the director of the school. He could talk to anybody - simple or educated. He liked chess, fishing,…

— Svetlana Alexievich

Although I liked especially physics and mathematics for which I had considerable talent, I decided to study medicine. This profession had for me a…

— Renato Dulbecco

I was a Ph.D. student at a very reputable university, I was a Harvard research associate at one of the world's premier leadership institutions.

— Paula Broadwell

I never had a role that I set out for. I always wanted to have a body of work that I'm proud of. Save…

— Richard Dreyfuss

I wanted to be some kind of captain of industry. Then I wanted to be in advertising, and then I wanted to be a…

— Ken Follett

I decided to become a surgeon named Bernie who writes books and gives seminars to teach people what he has learned and is still…

— Bernie Siegel