There is no such thing as an infallible doctor.
Edward E. RosenbaumTag: medicine perfection doctors
Doctors are great--as long as you don't need them.
Edward E. RosenbaumAt one time, the treatment for a certain kind of psychosis had been to push an ice pick up through the orbit of the eye, into the frontal lobe; the ice pick was then stirred around until it reduced the problematic brain tissue to non-functioning porridge.
Alastair ReynoldsPeople underestimate the importance of dilligence as a virtue. No doubt it has something to do with how supremely mundane it seems. It is defined as "the constant and earnest effort to accomplish what is undertaken."... Understood, however, as the prerequisite of great accomplishment, diligence stands as one of the most difficult challenges facing any group of people who take on tasks of risk and consequence. It sets a high, seemingly impossible, expectation for performance and human behavior.
Atul GawandeTag: inspirational attitude medicine student-accountability
Gratitude is medicine for a heart devastated by tragedy. If you can only be thankful for the blue sky, then do so.
Richelle E. GoodrichTag: heart tragedy medicine healing gratitude thankfulness thanks richelle richelle-goodrich
Doctors is all swabs.
Robert Louis StevensonTag: medicine
Gallows humor is part of having a doctor in the house. Deal with it.
J.R. WardTag: humor medicine gallows-humor black-dagger-brotherhood
We'd been assured it wouldn't be painful, though she might experience 'discomfort,' a term beloved of the medical profession that seems to be a synonym for agony that isn't yours.
Lionel ShriverTag: pain family medicine hospital
Every problem of medicine is a problem of language, and this operation was a malapropism.
William S. WilsonTag: language medicine operation
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