"I am a medical scientist, not a practical…" — Robert Jarvik

"I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician."

— Robert Jarvik

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15 Quotes by Robert Jarvik

Robert Jarvik has 15 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I knew that my father was going to die of heart disease, and I was trying to make a heart…
As spokesman for Lipitor, I have been an advocate of preventive medicine in addition to my work with the Jarvik…
I am, in fact, a medical doctor; I am a world expert in mechanical heart technology; and I am an…
I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician. I think it's very upfront. I am a doctor. I have…
I do not practice clinical medicine and hence do not treat individual patients. My career is in medical science.
Lipitor is one of the most researched medicines. I'm glad I take Lipitor, as a doctor, and a dad.
There is a clear matter that I am not a practicing physician; I have never been a practitioner; everybody has…
As a medical doctor who chose a career in artificial heart technology rather than clinical practice, I decided not to…
The artificial heart is very effective as a bridge to transplant, but the number of people that can be saved…
The United States has an active pharmaceutical industry that has brought huge benefits to the U.S. public. Most Americans, who…
This idea that clumsy, stumbling people are real bright is ridiculous, because intelligence is related to neurologic function, and really…
Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.

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More Medical Quotes

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All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim… — Isaac Asimov
Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say. — Wystan Hugh Auden
The greatest evil is physical pain. — Saint Augustine
The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not… — Edward Bach
When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows… — Enid Bagnold
Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture… — Anita Baker
Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights… — Saint Basil
People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures. — Martha Beck
The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction. — Alfred Adler
Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover… — Wendell Berry
Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient. — Ambrose Bierce
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. — Erma Bombeck

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