"There aren't any syringes." Red Sox came over and held a sterile pack out. When she tried to take it form him, he kept a grip on the thing. "I know you'll use this wisely."
"Wisely?" She snapped the syringe out of his hand. "No, I'm going to poke him in the eye with it. Because that's what they trained me to do in medical school."
— J.R. Ward (Lover Unbound)

"It's never Lupus."
— Gregory House

"Surgeons are control freaks. With a scalpel in your hand, you feel unstoppable. There's no fear, there's no pain. You're ten-feet tall and bulletproof. And then you leave the OR. And all that perfection, all that beautiful control, just falls to crap."
— Shonda Rhymes (in "Grey's Anatomy" - Dr. Meredith Grey)

"$13 to $20 billion a year could be saved in health care costs by demedicalizing childbirth, developing midwifery, and encouraging breastfeeding."
— Frank Oski, MD, Professor and Director, Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

"to cure sometimes, to relieve often, to comfort always."
— Edward Livingston Trudeau

"Obstetricians and hospitals have found that high-intervention birth, warranted or not, is very profitable. So there is a tremendous financial incentive to bypass the clinically optimal approach, and opt for convenience and profit. For example, many hospitals across the country have eliminated facility-based midwifery practices simply because the low-intervention approach, while clinically sound, does not bring in as many dollars."
— Tonya Jamois, president of ICAN

"Medical school had been a time for imaginary diseases and Martin had contracted almost all of them."
— Robin Cook (Brain)

"Dr.Costa then offered important clues to differentiate the syndrome from polio. in tick paralysis there is no fever, the spinal fluod is normal, the knee jerk and other reflexes are lost early, the patient is passive and apathetic, and, of course, the child has had a recent tick bite, or an attached tick is found."
— Pamela Nagami (Bitten: True Medical Stories of Bites and Stings)

"you can't sue a tsunami ... [on zero alien Disclosure]"
— andrew hennessey