Four out of five doctors prescribe baseball for whatever ails you. The fifth guy is a quack.

Above all else, above the mechanics, even, a doctor should be thoroughly grounded in morality.

The art is long, life is short, opportunity fleeting, experiment dangerous, judgment difficult.

My top priority is for people to understand that they have the power to change things themselves.

A medicine cat has no time for doubt. Put your energy into today and stop worrying about the past.

There is no body cavity that cannot be reached with a number fourteen needle and a good strong arm.

You see, when medicine works, it is blessed science, and when it fails, it is witchcraft. - Polidori

Life is choices, and they are relentless. No sooner have you made one choice than another is upon you.

It is not kindness to tell patients that need strong medicine that nothing serious is wrong with them.

How do you tell the psychiatrists from the patients in the hospital?The patients get better and leave.

There is one essential requirement for being close with a dying person: the letting go of self-concern.

Like plumbing, medicine is a profession where you learn early on not to put your fingers in your mouth.

We are not able to express ourselves in a hospital, even when seriously ill, we don�t have time.

In the words of the philosopher Sceptum, the founder of my profession: am I going to get paid for this?

Mine is a gruesome job, but for a scientist with a love for the mechanics of the human body, a great one.