Medical Students Quotes

“Everything teeters between pathos and bathos: here you are, violating society's most fundamental taboos and yet formaldehyde is a powerful appetite stimulant, so you also crave a burrito.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“The world doesn't need more smart doctors, it needs more warm and wise doctors. Be the wisdom yourself - be the warmth yourself, and be the doctor that the doctors have forgotten to be, for it is time to save medicine, to save humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Time to Save Medicine

“Be aware of the whole domain of sickness - be aware of its implications in human life - be aware of its farthest reach in the life of the patient as well as the lives of the next of kin - be aware of its deepest roots, for that very awareness is the very foundation of true diagnosis, which automatically brings along the awareness of wellness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Time to Save Medicine

“There is no painkiller as effective as love, no anti-depressant as soothing as cheer, no defibrillator as powerful as wisdom.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Time to Save Medicine

“As a doctor, you don’t practice medicine, rather you become the medicine yourself.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Time to Save Medicine

“There may be medical tools in your hands to treat the patient, but those hands must be that of a loving, warm and conscientious human being.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Time to Save Medicine

“MEDICINE means Mercy - Empathy - Dare - Integrity - Care - Ingenuity - Nobility - and Ethics.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“The young doctor should look about early for an avocation, a pastime, that will take him away from patients, pills, and potions.”
― William Osler

“Doctor's Sonnet

A doctor is one who's gentle as a bird,
A doctor is one who's brave as a soldier,
A doctor is one who's amusing as a clown,
A doctor is one who's caring as a mother.
Treating the sick is not a comfort job,
It is a difficult life without leisure and lure.
If all you want are wealth and tranquility,
Trade in your medical license for a liquor store.
The world is filled with doctors most cold,
Many don't practice medicine but self-centricity.
Instruments and intellect don't make a doctor,
Without warmth all pills lose their efficacy.
Healthcare means aid first talk rules later.
Better a kindhearted fool than a heartless monster.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World

“Understanding sickness in its whole form, reach and impact, automatically brings along the insight into wellness, just like understanding chaos with all its nuances brings along the true practical perception of harmony and the means to achieve it.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Time to Save Medicine

“Wellness is not the lack of sickness, but the capacity to overcome sickness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Time to Save Medicine

“A life saved is a family saved.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Time to Save Medicine

“MEDICINE means Mercy – Empathy – Dare – Integrity – Care – Ingenuity – and Ethics.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Medicine Means (The Sonnet)

MEDICINE means Mercy,
MEDICINE means Empathy,
MEDICINE means Dare,
MEDICINE means Integrity,
MEDICINE means Care,
MEDICINE means Ingenuity,
MEDICINE means Nobility,
MEDICINE means Ethicality.
Medicine is not a profession,
Medicine is but a sacred calling.
An average doctor saves a body,
A good doctor saves a being.
Pathogens exist to cash in on sickness.
A doctor exists to be lost among patients.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Find A Cause Outside Yourself: Sermon of Sustainability

“An average doctor saves a body, a good doctor saves a being.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Find A Cause Outside Yourself: Sermon of Sustainability

“Medicine means Mercy - Empathy - Dare - Integrity - Care - Ingenuity - Nobility - and Ethics, or it can mean Mechanical, Egotistical, Dehumanizing, Indifferent, Cold, Insensitive, Nincompoop Elitist. You decide what you practice, and your decision will determine what you are - a doctor or a butcher!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“Medicine is not about the doctors, it is about the patients.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Treatment of sickness is a part of Medicine, but it's not the whole of Medicine.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“But the problem arises when instead of setting aside our natural reactions, they are denied altogether. Then the culture simply becomes superhuman. And thus is the realm of the superhuman there is no room for human frailty, and admission of it by one risks revealing the illusion of the many. So no one speaks up, and as a result each person believes that she is alone in her experience. To that end, we are left in a profession of untouchable greatness and infallibility, but one whose members kill themselves more than others.”
― Christine Montross, Body of Work: Meditations on Mortality from the Human Anatomy Lab

“Celebrities Ain't Health Experts (The Sonnet)

Celebrities and influencers are not health experts,
Stop taking medical advice from halfwits of wellness.
Stop being a two-bit doctor from ten minutes of googling,
For Google is not a substitute for doctors and nurses.
Compared to that of a trained and experienced doctor,
Even as a neurobiologist my diagnosis skills are insignifant.
Then why can't you accept that when it comes to medicine,
Your opinion is worth no more than a counterfeit coin.
One goes through years of training and many sleepless nights,
Then they earn the right to wear the white coat of service.
And yet upon spending an hour surfing on the internet,
You put on the personality of a grey-haired neurologist!
Lack of expertise is by no means the same as lack of dignity.
But denial of expertise indicates a definite lack of sanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World

“Stop being a two-bit doctor from ten minutes of googling.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World

“You are introducing chaos into my ordered world of cardiology. See this. This is your heart—a perfect pump.

It's not just a pump. The heart is life, the holder of the soul, the keeper of dreams, and the place inside yourself where you talk to the angels.

-Cardiologist Angela Perkins getting schooled on the heart by medical student Michael Harper in High Risk”
― Carina Alyce, High Risk

“Unique Book for medical technologist and a radiographer”
― JEET GHOSH, Radiology Renaissance : Unleashing Advancements & Queries

“Healthcare means aid first, rules later.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World

“To control disease is called treatment,
To be aware of health is called wellness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans

“First I have to discover what exactly is wrong with each patient. Medical students today don't spend enough time on simple diagnostic skills. They rely too heavily on technology. But when you have a whole bunch of symptoms and a complicated medical history, you have to listen and look and use your hands.”
― Gretel Ehrlich, A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning

“Doctor Not Butcher
(Medical Anthem Sonnet)

We are the Doctors,
Our worship is to the ailing.
We don't bow to politicians,
Nor to bureaucratic bullying.

Service to the sick
is service to the divine.
There is no greater divinity,
than being a human lifeline.

We don't recognize borders,
We don't recognize states.
Patientcare is our national anthem,
Reward of medicine is smiling patients.

Dead doctor postpones death,
Living doctor improves life.
While butcher doctors monetize malady,
To empower life, real doctors strive.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“We don't recognize borders,
We don't recognize states.
Patientcare is our national anthem,
Reward of medicine is smiling patients.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“Patientcare is our national anthem.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“Smile Before Pills (Sonnet 1402)

The only permanence we have is each other,
The only paradise we have is each other.
Heaven is as real as we are to each other,
Most potent medicine we have is each other.

One moment of love is time eternal,
100 years of hate are but ghost of wild past.
One rebellion of love is destiny in making,
100 rituals of hate are just monkeys' mass.

A smile works faster than a pill,
both metaphorically and physiologically.
Pills take hours to reach your bloodstream, while
a smile triggers instant release of neurochemicals,
which alleviates pain and facilitates immunity.

Sure, pills and prescriptions are a scientific boon,
They achieve wonders where organic powers fall short.
Yet, there is no prescription for a mannerless medico,
There is no pharmaceutical cure for a medical upstart.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets