What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?

The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.

Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.

We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.

I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it's only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.

To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.

Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school - not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.