Only write if you can't not.

Samuel Shem

Stichwörter: writing



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At a cardiac arrest, the first procedure is to take your own pulse

Samuel Shem

Stichwörter: medicine



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Gomers are human beings who have lost what goes into being human beings. They want to die, and we will not let them.

Samuel Shem

Stichwörter: medicine end-of-life-care gomers



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A BMS hears hoofbeats outside his window, the first thing he thinks of is a zebra

Samuel Shem

Stichwörter: medicine med-students



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To do nothing for the gomers was to do something, and the more conscientiously I did nothing the better they got.

Samuel Shem

Stichwörter: medicine



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The patient is the one with the disease

Samuel Shem

Stichwörter: medicine



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We were putting into these gomers our fear of death, but who knew if they feared death? Perhaps they welcomed death like a dear long-lost cousin, grown old but still known, coming to visit, relieving the loneliness, the failing of the senses, the fury of the half-blind looking into the mirror and not recognizing who is looking back, a dear friend, a dear reliever, a healer who would be with them for an eternity, the same eternity as the long ago, before birth.

Samuel Shem

Stichwörter: satire medical



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Basch: So why don't you ask her out?

The Runt: I'm scared she wouldn't like me and say no.

-So what? What have you got to lose?

-The possibility -if she says no- that she might have said yes. Whatever I do, I don't want to lose that possibility.

Samuel Shem

Stichwörter: love dating medicine



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Law XIII. THE DELIVERY OF MEDICAL CARE IS TO DO AS MUCH NOTHING AS POSSIBLE

Samuel Shem


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Life's like a penis; When it's soft you can't beat it; When it's hard you get screwed. - The Fat Man, Medical Resident in The House of God

Samuel Shem


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