“I grew up in rural Tennessee. There were no bookstores in the town, but the school had a little library and the town had a little library, each with a patient and enthusiastic librarian, and I raced into both as if they were doorways to another world.” IfsWorldLittlesSchoolGrewGrew UpTownsPatientLibraryEnthusiasticLibrarianDoorwaysAnother WorldBookstoresTennessee Author:Michael Sims
“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 specialised language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve; empathy can be replaced by cynicism.” NeedsSchoolLanguageProcessLosesTeachInformationHugeDiseaseEmpathySightPatientMedicalPreservesCynicismVolumeReplacedMedical School Author:Abraham Verghese
“To have a group of cloistered clinicians away completely from the broad current of professional life would be bad for teacher and worse for student. The primary work of a professor of medicine in a medical school is in the wards, teaching his pupils how to deal with patients and their diseases.” Would BeSchoolDealsTeacherGroupsTeachingStudentsDiseaseMedicinePatientCurrentsMedicalPrimariesBroadsProfessorsPupilsProfessional LifeMedical SchoolClinicians Book:The educational essays Source: The educational essays
“To every class we have a school assign'd, Rules for all ranks, and food for every mind: Yet one there is, that small regard to rule Or study pays, and still is deem'd a school; That, where a deaf, poor, patient widow sits, And awes some thirty infants as she knits; Infants of humble, busy wives, who pay Some trifling price for freedom through the day. At this good matron's hut the children meet, Who thus becomes the mother of the street.” MindChildrenStillsSchoolMotherPoorPayClassStudyWifeStreetsRegardPatientBusyHumbleThirtyAweInfantDeafWidowsTriflingHuts Book:The Poetical Works of George Crabbe: With a Life of the Author Source: The Poetical Works of George Crabbe: With a Life of the Author
“The pleasant converse of the fireside, the simple songs of home, the words of encouragement as I bend over my school-tasks, the kiss as I lie down to rest, the patient bearing with the freaks of my restless nature, the gentle counsels mingled with reproofs and approvals, the sympathy that meets and assuages every sorrow, and sweetens every little success--all these return to me amid the responsibilities which press upon me now, and I feel as if I had once lived in heaven, and, straying, had lost my way.” IfsWayFeelsLittlesHomeSchoolLyingSongLostHeavenSimpleResponsibilityReturnSorrowKissingTasksEncouragementPressesPatientMy WayGentlePleasantFreakApprovalRestlessConversesWords Of EncouragementReproofReturn To Me Author:J. G. Holland
“Our own unresolved authority problems from our youth sometimes get transferred to our youthful patients, because we are still "covert adolescent rebels." In subtle ways, we encourage the adolescent patient to rebel towards parents, school authorities, and society in general.” WayStillsSometimesProblemSchoolParentYouthAuthorityPatientSubtleRebelCovert Author:Virgil Miller Newton
“As a child, I probably knew phrases that other children didn't known, like "pitocin drip" or "myocardial infarction." Some kind of knowledge was always in the air. My parents would always talk about science at the dinner table, saying something about this patient or some other patient. So I guess for a nanosecond in early high school, I thought about going into medicine.” KindChildrenSchoolParentKnownAirHigh SchoolTablesMedicinePatientDinnerPhrasesDinner Table Author:M. Night Shyamalan
“No one teaches you how to think about money in medical school or residency. Yet, from the moment you start practicing, you must think about it. You must consider what is covered for a patient and what is not.” ThinkingMomentsSchoolTeachPatientMedicalCoveredMedical SchoolResidency Author:Atul Gawande