Sandeep Jauhar is a compelling storyteller, and Doctored gives us a fantastic tour through the seedy underworld of American medicine.

A lot of the appeal of internal medicine is Sherlockian—solving the case from the clues. We are detectives; we revel in the process of figuring it all out. It’s what doctors most love to do.

In medicine, uncertainty is the water we swim in.

A sincere and warmly-expressed apology can produce the same effects as morphine on a suffering soul.

You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.

It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you.

Friendship is one of the greatest luxuries of life.

I was always in search of a perfect game and I never got it.

Death alone discloses how insignificant are the puny bodies of men.

The real demon is success-the anxieties engendered by this quest are relentless, degrading, corroding. What is worse, there is no end to this escalation of desire.

With the Eucharist, therefore, heaven comes down to earth, the tomorrow of God descends into the present and it is as if time remains embraced by divine eternity.

I'm no genius. I'm not at all; I just happen to look five or 10 years ahead and think things through.

To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language.