Samuel Shem quotes
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“At a cardiac arrest, the first procedure is to take your own pulse”
-- Samuel ShemSource : Samuel Shem (2010). “The House of God”, p.152, Penguin
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“There is no body cavity that cannot be reached with a number fourteen needle and a good strong arm.”
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“The patient is the one with the disease”
-- Samuel ShemSource : "The House of God". Book by Samuel Shem, September 7, 2010.
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“The delivery of medical care is to do as much nothing as possible.”
-- Samuel ShemSource : Samuel Shem (2010). “The House of God”, p.311, Penguin
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“Yes, last year in interviewing. Empathy is when you repeat the last three words the patient says and nod your head.”
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“I make my patients feel like they're still part of life, part of some grand nutty scheme instead of alone with their diseases. With me, they still feel part of the human race.”
-- Samuel Shem
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Source : A. E. Waite (2012). “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot”, p.5, Courier Corporation
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“Beginning with the first bite, and for every bite after, that try to chew ten times.”
Source : Aaron Hoopes (2010). “Zen Anti-Diet: Mindful Eating for Health, Vitality and Weight Loss”, p.14, Aaron Hoopes
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“Philosophy is overwhelmingly complicated, its procedure depressingly slow.”
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Source : Morton Feldman (1985). “Essays”
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“Procedure names should reflect what they do; function names should reflect what they return”
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