Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.

I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.

What we are fighting isn't godlessness--this is the most godly country on earth. We aren't even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines... that helps. When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.

She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.

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.

Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?"....I met his gaze and I did not blink. "Words of comfort," I said to my father.

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