Michael > Michael's Quotes

“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.”
― Michael J. Collins, 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.”
― Michael J. Collins, 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.”
― Michael J Collins

“We, who should know better, reinforce every patient's desire to hide from the reality of his own mortality.”
― Michael J. Collins, Blue Collar, Blue Scrubs: The Making of a Surgeon