Gerald F. Lieberman Quotes

I treated as few patients as I could as a medical student, and I never practiced medicine.

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

Medical school education and post graduate education emphasize thoroughness.

I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.

In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

You don't train someone for all of those years of medical school and residency, particularly people who want to help others optimize their physical and psychological health, and then have them run a claims-processing operation for insurance companies.

Although I completed two years of internship in various small hospitals, I decided against continuing my medical training. I was much more fascinated by the unsolved problems of medicine than by practicing it.

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.

I'm an internist by training.

The physician...is the flower (such as it is) of our civilization.

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

I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.

Anyone having to do with medicine will have looked at Frank Netter's art work... I decided I would make him my model... getting my degree in medical illustration and then going on to medical school.

To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.

The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.

Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the earliest records of every culture on earth. It is hard to think of a more dependable or enduring occupation, harder still to imagine any future events leading to its extinction.

Whether it's possible or not, being a doctor, you take an oath. To care for your patient, not to kill them. You take an oath to do things that are proper in the medical world. Not to administer something outside of a hospital setting that's not even your area.

The growing professional disciplines of medical ethics and bioethics have had a profound impact on researchers, bedside doctors, associations of physicians, and government.

When I went to medical school, the term 'digital' applied only to rectal exams.

Remember, I'm a doctor's daughter. So obviously I'm interested in all medical things.

Three of my children are medical doctors, they know at least a hundred times as much about your body as my grandfather knew, but they don't know much more about soul than he did.

But if you're asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health. This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick.

I think what medical training does is it gives you the language, the tools to look up facts. I think medical training gives you a sense of how to approach a problem, how to look at symptoms and go down the list of what it might be.