"The House of God" Quotes
A darkly humorous and satirical look at the medical profession through the eyes of a young doctor navigating the chaotic world of hospital medicine.
medicine | 416 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
The House of God was an old, crumbly, and noisy hospital that had to be torn down and replaced.
GOMERs never die.
At a cardiac arrest, the first procedure is to take your own pulse.
The patient is the one with the disease.
Show me a BMS (Best Medical Student), and I'll show you a world-class medical masochist.
The delivery of medical care is to do as much nothing as possible.
In the House of God, the only way to keep from getting dumped on is to keep dumping.
The patient is the one with the X-ray film.
If you don't take a temperature, you can't find a fever.
At a cardiac arrest, the first procedure is to call a code.
