Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam.

Being the first born gives you great patience.

In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.

Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals

I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.

No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.

I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country, and but for their services, I'm not sure how exactly we could manage.