If 'ecstasy' meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.

I was angry with myself because I still loved her, or at least I loved that dream of our togetherness. My feelings were unreasonable, irrational, and I couldn't change them. That hurt.

What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?

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.

We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation.

I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.

In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.