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

I always knew I wanted to be a doctor, but I also knew that being a doctor meant more than treating just the patient in front of you.

Medicine's good for some people. Not for me.

I was going to college to be a doctor.

As I've met clinicians in my travels, time after time I've been inspired to hear why people went into medicine: to apply their way-above-average minds (and hearts) to work that's beyond most people's capacity, and perhaps save a few lives.

I'm so glad I didn't become a doctor, because I do more than any doctor can do. I am an administrator, a CEO, doctor, psychiatrist, an activist, a campaign funder. I think I did well.

I went to college, I went pre-med, I thought I was going to be a doctor.

My parents wanted me to be a doctor. So I took up science, but then realised that my heart was not in it at all. The thought of treating ailing people was very depressing.

If you want to get out of medicine the fullest enjoyment, be students all your lives.

The best doctors and medicine in the world can't save you if you don't do what you're supposed to do.