Community Quote by Rudolf Virchow

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

But we need a medical community that's trained and knowledgeable and working on advancement.

— Michelle Obama

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

“Health care is the system created to deliver the greatest revenue-generating products and procedures to address illness, but not provide health.”

— William Davis

When I went to the University, the medical school was the only place where one could hope to find the means to study life,…

— Albert Claude

“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

“By the end of medical school, most students tended to focus on "lifestyle" specialities - those with more humane hours, higher salaries, and lower…

— Paul Kalanithi

I wish medical schools helped us to analyze our healthy and unhealthy reasons for becoming doctors.

— Bernie Siegel

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

— Tasuku Honjo

“As doctors we are our patients’ teachers and must provide them with the environment to learn so as to better their physical and mental…

— Richard Colgan

“The problem with medicine and the institutions it has spawned for the care of the sick and the old is not that they have…

— Atul Gawande

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

— Richard Diaz