There's a chance she'll have to be on anti-rejection medicine for the rest of her life. The doctors said the next six months are the most critical.

The doctors looked at him and they gave him a 30 percent chance to live.

I get a chance to be a fairy godmother and take kids out of the world of medicine and doctors and bad stuff, ... I can make them smile.

The most exquisite pleasure in the practice of medicine comes from nudging a layman in the direction of terror, then bringing him back to safety again.

It's not what doctors do. Basically, it turns medicine upside down.

I always feel that young doctors are only too anxious too experiment. After they've whipped out all our teeth, and administered quantities of very peculiar glands, and removed bits of our insides, they then confess that nothing can be done for us. I really prefer the old-fashioned remedy of big black bottles of medicine. After all, one can always pour those down the sink.