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1. "Life's like a penis; When it's soft you can't beat it; When it's hard you get screwed. - The Fat Man, Medical Resident in The House of God" ~ Samuel Shem
2. "Law XIII. THE DELIVERY OF MEDICAL CARE IS TO DO AS MUCH NOTHING AS POSSIBLE" ~ Samuel Shem
3. "We were putting into these gomers our fear of death, but who knew if they feared death? Perhaps they welcomed death like a dear long-lost cousin, grown old but still known, coming to visit, relieving the loneliness, the failing of the senses, the fury of the half-blind looking into the mirror and not recognizing who is looking back, a dear friend, a dear reliever, a healer who would be with them for an eternity, the same eternity as the long ago, before birth." ~ Samuel Shem
4. "A BMS hears hoofbeats outside his window, the first thing he thinks of is a zebra" ~ Samuel Shem
5. "Basch: So why don't you ask her out?The Runt: I'm scared she wouldn't like me and say no.-So what? What have you got to lose?-The possibility -if she says no- that she might have said yes. Whatever I do, I don't want to lose that possibility." ~ Samuel Shem
6. "Only write if you can't not." ~ Samuel Shem
7. "To do nothing for the gomers was to do something, and the more conscientiously I did nothing the better they got." ~ Samuel Shem
8. "Gomers are human beings who have lost what goes into being human beings. They want to die, and we will not let them." ~ Samuel Shem
9. "There is no body cavity that cannot be reached with a number fourteen needle and a good strong arm." ~ Samuel Shem
10. "At a cardiac arrest, the first procedure is to take your own pulse" ~ Samuel Shem
11. "The patient is the one with the disease" ~ Samuel Shem

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