Beware of people who call you 'Doc.' They rarely pay their bills.

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.

Listen to your patient, he is telling you the diagnosis.

The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the disease and once from the medicine.

Gentlemen, I have a confession to make. Half of what we have taught you is in error, and furthermore we cannot tell you which half it is

The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head.

No man is really happy or safe without a hobby.

He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest.

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.

[I]n America, wrongs can be righted, warriors can wear skirts and blouses, and the bravest heartsmay beat in girlsonly five feet tall.

It's up to you to make your own destiny and not up to destiny to make you

You should always judge a book by its lovers.

Since the early '80s, I've found myself in war zones in various parts of the world.

I refrain from lots of things I love, like cheese and carbs. I eat plenty of greens every day, my favorite being watercress.

The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus

I think you have to have a personal connection, and that's what I am always looking to try to create: a personal way in to a story.

During the past two decades, inflation has fallen to a low level in major industrial countries.

Writing a book is an adventure.