Doctor
Nobody just leaves medical school, especially given it's fiercely competitive to get in. But I had a sister who was a doctor, another who was a pharmacist, a brother who was an engineer. So my parents already had sensible children who would be able to make an actual living, and I think they felt comfortable sacrificing their one strange child.
When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother.
You know what they call the fellow who finishes last in his medical school graduating class? They call him 'Doctor'.
I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.
Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.
My parents told me I would become a doctor and then in my spare time I would become a concert pianist. So, both my day job and my spare time were sort of taken care of.
I am a doctor — it's a profession that may be considered a special mission, a devotion. It calls for involvement, respect and willingness to help all other people.
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.
Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.
Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.
It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.
In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.
I once wrote that Lord Moran, Churchill's doctor, had doctored his diaries as well as his famous patient. That was true but unfair. Although their authenticity as contemporary, daily accounts is often questionable, the observations are quite wonderful.
The type of leukemia that I am dealing with is treatable. So if I do what my doctors tell me to do — get my blood checked regularly, take my meds and consult with my doctor and follow any additional instructions he might make — I will be able to maintain my good health and live my life with a minimum of disruptions to my lifestyle.
There is no employing class, no working class, no farming class. You may pigeonhole a man or woman as a farmer or a worker or a professional man or an employer or even a banker. But the son of the farmer will be a doctor or a worker or even a banker, and his daughter a teacher. The son of a worker will be an employer — or maybe president.
A doctor does not ask about political views and opinions — that is how I understand my role.
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