Samuel Shem Quotes
- The delivery of medical care is to do as much nothing as possible.
- There is no body cavity that cannot be reached with a number fourteen needle and a good strong arm.
- Yes, last year in interviewing. Empathy is when you repeat the last three words the patient says and nod your head.
- I make my patients feel like they're still part of life, part of some grand nutty scheme instead of alone with their diseases. With me,…
- The patient is the one with the disease
- At a cardiac arrest, the first procedure is to take your own pulse