Medical quotes

"Medical costs are of concern, both in developing and developed countries."

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Medical Concern Costs Both

"I studied at the Hebrew University Medical Faculty, graduated, and was an Israel Defense Forces' combat physician on a Navy ship."

Aaron Ciechanover

Medical Ship University Navy

"The worst position you are in is when you are on the medical bed, and you can't get out on that training pitch."

You Medical Training Worst

"Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions."

Political Medical Legal Abuse

"An abortion is expensive. Its cost includes pay for the doctor, supporting medical staff, their health benefits packages, and malpractice insurance."

Health Doctor Medical Insurance

"You know what they call the fellow who finishes last in his medical school graduating class? They call him 'Doctor.'"

You Doctor Medical Who School

"Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor."

You Doctor Medical Idiot

"Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be. I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around, but he carried it off so well."

Abraham Verghese

Medical Looking Back Looking Who

"What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it - the process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialized language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve; empathy can be replaced by cynicism."

Abraham Verghese

Learning Medical Lose Empathy

"We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine."

Abraham Verghese

Great Medical Suffering Lose

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