Medicine really matured me as a person because, as a physician, you’re obviously dealing with life and death issues, issues much more serious than what we’re talking about in entertainment. You can’t get more serious than life and death. And if you can handle that, you can handle anything.
The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.
I’ve always approached my job first as a physician. I’m here to help and take care of patients. I’m an administrator second.
You don’t necessarily want your physician to have all your information.
As an emergency physician, I can tell you that the best health insurance in the world means nothing if patients can’t reach a hospital in their moment of need.
Given one well-trained physician of the highest type he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.
Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
I am not a physician, but I am deeply interested in diagnostic categories and have read extensively in the history of the subject.
As a physician for over 30 years, I am well aware of the dangers infectious diseases pose.
The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient’s hopes are the physician’s secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.
The power of community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic or hospital.
In my own experience as a physician, I have not seen a miraculous healing, and I don’t expect to see one.
The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
In my work as an emergency physician, I know that checklists can be helpful. They ensure complex procedures are done thoroughly and provide an extra assurance for safety. But they can also result in a ‘cookbook’ approach, where you get the same recipe of tests and medications as everyone else.
I was born in a middle class Muslim family, in a small town called Myonenningh in a northern part of Bangladesh in 1962. My father is a qualified physician; my mother is a housewife. I have two elder brothers and one younger sister. All of them received a liberal education in schools and colleges.
I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician. I think it’s very upfront. I am a doctor. I have long experience with heart disease.
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