Diminish Quote by Richard Selzer

“If people understood that doctors weren't divine, perhaps the odor of malpractice might diminish.”

Richard Selzer

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I never intended to become a writer.

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The liver, that great maroon snail: No wave of emotion sweeps it. Neither music nor mathematics gives it pause in its appointed tasks.

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Surgery is the red flower that blooms among the leaves and thorns that are the rest of medicine.

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I contemplate the body, dead and diseased as well as alive and healthy.

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