"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."
- Paul Kalanithi
"A doctor's mission should not be to prevent death, but more importantly it should be to improve the quality of life."
- Abhijit Naskar
"Being a doctor, you are not supposed to give vent to any signs of revulsion on encountering the most noxious of odours or the most gruesome of sights."
- Anurag Shourie
"Stress and sleep deprivation had a funny way of liberating the mind from previously held truisms, replacing them with a more compliant desperation."
- David Z. Hirsch
"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."