Only write if you can't not.
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At a cardiac arrest, the first procedure is to take your own pulse
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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.
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A BMS hears hoofbeats outside his window, the first thing he thinks of is a zebra
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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.
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The patient is the one with the disease
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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 ShemBasch: 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.
Law XIII. THE DELIVERY OF MEDICAL CARE IS TO DO AS MUCH NOTHING AS POSSIBLE
Samuel ShemLife'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
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