Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It's a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then y….

I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orth….

Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?"....I met his gaze and I did not blink. "Words of comfort," I said to my fathe….

When you win, you often lose, that's just a fact. There's no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart..

He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him..

Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion..

Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school - not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical..

Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals.

She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life... As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death….

A beautiful literary collection that tells of today's country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone by, but still f….

In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina..

There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-.

God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by--by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don't think God cares what doctrine we embra….

The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole..

I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end very quickly, so d….

I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this cou….

When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning..

Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels..

She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake..

I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and inter….

For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information. It seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhap….