Lewis Thomas Quotes

Practicing medicine is not only my vocation, it gives me an opportunity to continue to be in direct contact with people, to see them and hear their needs.

If I hadn't become a photographer, I would have loved to become a doctor. I would have loved to have done something that actually helped people and changed their lives.

Medicine has always been my calling.

For a long time, I thought I would like to be a doctor. Such a good profession. So explicitly good. Never a waste of time.

I never quite envisioned myself a proper doctor under that white coat, but I was interested in the idea of healing and in the psychological dimension rather early on.

The field of medicine is one you have to have a lot of dedication to enter.

Michael respected doctors immensely: that they went to school, that they studied... to do no harm.

Originally, I was in high school, and I was studying biology, and I got really interested in the field of medicine. And then, I got a lot of early exposure to it because my father's a physician, and I saw the relationship that he had with his patients, and it was something that drew my attention to how wonderful the field was.

I liked medicine. I liked helping people. I liked the biology of it and understanding how the body works.

I'm an internist by training.

The practice of medicine is a thinker's art the practice of surgery a plumber's.

As a doctor, I've learned the importance and value of listening.

Hospitals are about healing.

What doctor does not need platform heels and dark black eyeliner to treat their patients?

For as long as I can really remember, I wanted to be a doctor.

Medicine grounds me, it centers me, that's why I continue to do it.

Diagnosis is not the end, but the beginning of practice.

If someone is interested in medicine and also in physics and they like working with people and communicate well with others, I would strongly encourage them.

Expertise is the mantra of modern medicine.

I wanted to be a doctor since I was five.

When I decided to become a doctor, I was very, very young, when my mother, her seventh child, became pregnant, and she was feeling terrible pain, and I could not know how to help her. And my mother died in front of my eyes, without knowing why, which diagnosis. So I decided to be a doctor.

I decided I wanted to be a physician when I was seven years old.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

The medical genre is beloved, and there are so many great stories to be told - and that's why it's so popular.

My mother wanted me to be a doctor.