28 Quotes About Medical-students

Everything teeters between pathos and bathos: here you are, violating society's most fundamental taboos and yet formaldehyde is a powerful appetite stimulant, so you also crave a burrito.

Wellness is not the lack of sickness, but the capacity to overcome sickness.

Richard had long ago made it clear that he viewed medical students as nothing more than an annoyance. Part canker, part pustule, we functioned – were he ever so generous to use that word – as vestigial organs, adding to the team like supernumerary nipples.

Hmm. Say, did that BMS has a hobby?'The head nurse picked up the chart, turned to the special section created by Pinkus, called 'Hobbies," and said, 'Nope. No hobby.''There,' said Pinkus. 'See? No hobby. He didn't have a hobby, do you understand? Do you have a hobby, Roy?'With some alarm I realized that I did not, and said so. 'You should have at least one.

Not every sickness is psychosomatic, but a weak psyche can indeed make a sickness worse.

Sometimes we called one another by our future doctor names. We did it partly to be funny, but mostly because we liked it when people did it back to us.

I feel your body, your sick and scared body. And I feel how it must be different from how it was, and how it is different from mine.

The most alarming moments of anatomy are not the bizarre, the unknown. They are the familiar.

Stress and sleep deprivation had a funny way of liberating the mind from previously held truisms, replacing them with a more compliant desperation.