Quotes on Medical Education

During my medical education at the University of Basle I found vivisection horrible, barbarous and above all unnecessary

Medical education does not exist to provide students with a way of making a living, but to ensure the health of the community.

Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organised to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school - not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.

My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.

The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles.