Michael J. Collins
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Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years
20 editions
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2005
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Blue Collar, Blue Scrubs: The Making of a Surgeon
15 editions
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2009
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All Bleeding Stops
3 editions
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2021
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“I'm taking inorganic chem and physics not because I want to but because I have to. Not every doctor wants to be a scientist. Some of us just want to take care of sick people. I can't help thinking that medicine is more closely aligned to the humanities than to the sciences. I can't help thinking that I could learn more about being a good doctor from William Shakespeare than I could from Isaac Newton. After all, isn't understanding people at least as important as understanding pathology?”
― Blue Collar, Blue Scrubs: The Making of a Surgeon
― Blue Collar, Blue Scrubs: The Making of a Surgeon
“At times it felt like I was killing myself. And yet the only thing I could recall at that moment was how much fun it had been, and how wonderful it was to do this for a living.”
― Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years
― Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years
“Why do we always think our pain will be less if we can make others suffer more?”
― Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years
― Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years
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“At times it felt like I was killing myself. And yet the only thing I could recall at that moment was how much fun it had been, and how wonderful it was to do this for a living.”
― Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years
― Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years
“I'm starting to realize that I can't be a child forever, that I don't want to be a child forever. I've had my turn, and now it's time to grow up.”
― Blue Collar, Blue Scrubs: The Making of a Surgeon
― Blue Collar, Blue Scrubs: The Making of a Surgeon
“I'm the dumb kid from the West Side of Chicago who has no business being at a place like this. I've got one long, tough road ahead of me.”
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“We, who should know better, reinforce every patient's desire to hide from the reality of his own mortality.”
― Blue Collar, Blue Scrubs: The Making of a Surgeon
― Blue Collar, Blue Scrubs: The Making of a Surgeon

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