Bleeding Quote by Dan Chaon

“Accurate enough to tell me that you’re burning up. Jesus, Sully, you should never have left the medical center. What were you thinking?” “I…

— Callie Hart

“I was truly shocked to discover how bad the modern medical profession really is!”

— Steven Magee

“I have always been of the opinion that your successes are due not so much to your medical skill as your dogged determination. No…

— Elizabeth Peters

“I find that my patients are far more sensible, and far less histrionic, about the realities of this process than their elected representatives are.”

— Willie Parker

“Outside an ambulance begins to scream as if overwhelmed by the suffering it must forever carry in its belly.”

— Alan Moore

“The bureaucrats had gotten into a habit of solving every medical problem by building something so that a congressman could say, ‘Here’s what I…

— Charles Duhigg

“All the same I fear what happens when we expand the terrain of medical practice to include actively assisting people with speeding their death.…

— Atul Gawande

“A doctor should be a clown at heart, a scientist at brain and a mother at conscience.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Words are doctors for the diseased temper.”

— Aeschylus

“Doctors are supposed to first do no harm, but when it comes to fat bodies, most doctors seem fundamentally incapable of heeding their oath.”

— Roxane Gay

“I struggle to keep my hard, expressionless mask in place. The doctor's most powerful weapon has always been his particular brand of brutal honesty.…

— Cristin Terrill

“I was arguing with the paramedics after they got me into the ambulance, begging for something to eat because I was so damn hungry.…

— Diana Rowland