Medicine Quote by Samuel Shem Download Open image ““A BMS hears hoofbeats outside his window, the first thing he thinks of is a zebra”” — Samuel Shem ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Medicine
“That had to be the answer. When you heard hoofbeats, you didn't think zebras.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“if you hear hoofbeats in the distance, your first guess is that they’re horses, not zebras. And you’re hearing hoofbeats and jumping straight to… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
“... when they hear hooves they look for zebras instead of horses” — Christopher Brookmyre Copy Share Image
“People don’t look for complications. You hear hoofbeats, you look for horses, not zebras.” — Lee Child Copy Share Image
“A zebra is the piano of the animal kingdom. And I am the flute at the nudist colony, if you know what I mean.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“...but now that I know it's possible for a couple of zebras to outsmart a crocodile, life is starting to look up" -Joe” — Sarah Weeks Copy Share Image
“He wakes up and he is not a halfhearted man and he can’t remember why he wakes this way, except that he hears the… — Linda Hogan Copy Share Image
“We were putting into these gomers our fear of death, but who knew if they feared death? Perhaps they welcomed death like a dear… — Samuel Shem Copy Share Image
“Paranoia's OK," said Berry, "it's just a more primitive defense. If you think someone's watching you, you think you're not alone.” — Samuel Shem Copy Share Image
“Law XIII. THE DELIVERY OF MEDICAL CARE IS TO DO AS MUCH NOTHING AS POSSIBLE” — Samuel Shem Copy Share Image
Yes, last year in interviewing. Empathy is when you repeat the last three words the patient says and nod your head. — Samuel Shem Copy Share Image
“Basch: 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… — Samuel Shem Copy Share Image
“Gomers are human beings who have lost what goes into being human beings. They want to die, and we will not let them.” — Samuel Shem Copy Share Image
“Every intern makes mistakes. The important thing is neither to make the same mistakes twice nor to make a whole bunch of mistakes all… — Samuel Shem Copy Share Image
There is no body cavity that cannot be reached with a number fourteen needle and a good strong arm. — Samuel Shem Copy Share Image
“I found myself thinking of Potts as a tragic figure, a guy who'd been a happy towheaded kid you'd love to take fishing with… — Samuel Shem Copy Share Image
“Life'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… — Samuel Shem Copy Share Image
I think people need to be comfortable questioning the authority of a doctor. — Susannah Cahalan Copy Share Image
Tell the truth about your wound, and then you will get a truthful picture of the remedy to apply to it. Don't pack whatever… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
“the doctor hesitated before breaking the news to her. "those aren't stars. it's cancer." - forty years a smoker” — Amanda Lovelace Copy Share Image
Making sure that people have access to preventive medicine for the first time ever as a nation? That's a big deal. — Brad Schneider Copy Share Image
being asked to decide between your passion for work and your passion for children was like being asked by your doctor whether you preferred… — Helen Bevington Copy Share Image
We ought to observe that practice which is the hardest of all-especially for young physicians-we ought to throw in no medicine at all-to abstain-to… — John Randolph of Roanoke Copy Share Image
“old-fashioned, gentle Scottish physician, unmoved by the considerations of profit and personal gain that could so disfigure medicine. That doctors should consider themselves businessmen… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Do you think that was kind? Do you think it was godlike? What would you think of a physician, if a woman came to… — Helen H. Gardener Copy Share Image
The World Health Organisation has a lot of its medical experts sitting in Geneva while hospitals in Africa have no drugs and desperate patients… — Pauline Hanson Copy Share Image
Antidepressants are the biggest fraud in the world. Number one, Prozac gives you a royal soft-on like you wouldn't believe, and number two you… — Robert Evans Copy Share Image
“I intend to study love as well as medicine, for it is one of the most mysterious and remarkable diseases that afflict mankind, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
