Letters To A Young Doctor Quotes

“You cannot separate passion from pathology any more than you can separate a person's spirit from his body.”
― Richard Selzer, Letters To A Young Doctor: Literary Reflections on the Brutality and Beauty of Saving and Losing Lives in Medicine

“Precisely because she had tended and pitied, the desolation is hers as well.”
― Richard Selzer, Letters To A Young Doctor: Literary Reflections on the Brutality and Beauty of Saving and Losing Lives in Medicine

“At midnight I looked about to discover that I was the oldest living human being in the world. A twinge of shame. I should be at home, I thought, in my slippers and my bronchitic scarf.”
― Richard Selzer, Letters To A Young Doctor: Literary Reflections on the Brutality and Beauty of Saving and Losing Lives in Medicine