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When I went to the University, the medical school was the only place where one could hope to find the means to study life, its nature, its origins, and its ills.

I want doctors to treat toward health and not treat toward disease.

I think it's a very valuable thing for a doctor to learn how to do research, to learn how to approach research, something there isn't time to teach them in medical school. They don't really learn how to approach a problem, and yet diagnosis is a problem; and I think that year spent in research is extremely valuable to them.

Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be. I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around, but he carried it off so well.

I wanted to be a surgeon, possibly influenced by the qualities of our family doctor who cared for our childhood ailments.

Medical school education and post graduate education emphasize thoroughness.

I saw my friends in medical school seeming to be more engaged with the real world. That provoked a sort of jealousy, and I decided to go to medical school after all.