Advice Quote by W. Somerset Maugham

You will have to learn many tedious things,...which you will forget the moment you have passed your final examination, but in anatomy it is…

— W. Somerset Maugham

What you need to learn how to do is analyze situations and do differential diagnoses and understand the principle and the concepts rather than…

— Leroy Hood

All of the details that most of us memorize in medical school - you don't have to learn those things. They're going to be…

— Leroy Hood

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

The dilemma of modern medicine, and the underlying central flaw in medical education and, most of all, in the training of interns, is the…

— Lewis Thomas

Students who have attended my [medical] lectures may remember that I try not only to teach them what we know, but also to realise…

— Clifford Allbutt

I have little interest in a surgeon who says, "I learned that when I was in medical school. Why should I revisit it?" or…

— Carol Ann Tomlinson

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

— Durjoy Datta

I learned about a lot of things in medical school, but mortality wasn't one of them.

— Atul Gawande

I tell [medical students] that they are the luckiest persons on earth to be in medical school, and to forget all this worry about…

— Joseph Murray

Med students panic their first year when they learn all the diseases. It's not until the second year that they learn the cures.

— Anonymous

It is possible to learn more than your doctor knows, particularly in key areas that specifically apply to you. In fact, you may discover…

— Andrew Saul