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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 delivery of medical care is to do as much nothing as possible.

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At a cardiac arrest, the first procedure is to take your own pulse

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Physiology and psychology cover, between them, the field of vital phenomena; they deal with the facts of life at large, and in particular with the facts of human life.
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Samuel Shem

Samuel Shem

Born: 1944 (age 81)
Bio: Samuel Shem is the pen-name of the American psychiatrist Stephen Joseph Bergman. His main works are The House of God and Mount Misery, both fictional but close-to-real first-hand descriptions of the training of doctors in the United States.
Known for:
  1. The House of God (1978)
  2. Mount Misery (1997)
  3. The spirit of the place (2008)
  4. We have to talk (1998)

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