19 Quotes by Barry Marshall

In high school I had B's and C's, not too many A's, but I must have done well on that medical school test, and I must have had some charisma in the interview, so I ended up in medicine. Being a general practitioner was all I aspired to.

In medical school, it's quite possible to get taught that you can diagnose everybody and treat everything. But then you get out in the real world and find that for most patients walking through your door, you have no idea what's causing their symptoms.

Dad always explained the car engine when he repaired it, and he had many technical books, so I was making electromagnets by age eight as well as reading my mother's medical and nursing books. I suspect I was born with a boundless curiosity, and this was encouraged through my childhood.

I was hoping I was going to get an ulcer. I was hoping to boost my research career by developing a bleeding ulcer.

Everything that's supposedly caused by stress, I tell people there's a Nobel Prize there if you find out the real cause.

It was so frustrating to see ulcer patients having surgery, or even dying, when I knew a simple antibiotic treatment could fix the problem.

The politics have always been difficult in medicine. There is some truth in the way medical practice is portrayed in TV dramas.

There is no other prize in any country that carries the prestige that a Nobel bestows.

To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.