"Surgeons are a singular brotherhood, Adam. To us, people aren't sacred beings crafted in the Almighty's image, no, people are joints of meat; diseased, leathery meat, yes, but meat ready for the skewer & the spit." He mimicked my usual voice, very well. "'But why *me*, Henry, are we not friends?' Well, Adam, even friends are made out of meat."

Medicine, Humanity, Friendship, Reality, Death

5

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"Surgeons are a singular brotherhood, Adam. To us, people aren't sacred beings crafted in the Almighty's image, no, people are joints of meat; diseased, leathery meat, yes, but meat ready for the skewer & the spit." He mimicked my usual voice, very well. "'But why *me*, Henry, are we not friends?' Well, Adam, even friends are made out of meat."

Exlpore more Medicine quotes

"I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

Medicine, Failure, Support, Profession

"An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand."

Ovid, Roman Poet

Medicine,

"Incurable diseases will eventually force mankind to justify disruptive nanotech and genetic engineering."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Medicine, Future, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"The mistakes of doctors are innumerable. They err as a rule out of optimism as to the treatment, and pessimism as to the outcome."

Marcel Proust, French Author

Medicine, Mistake, Truth, Optimism

"Doctors sometimes don't know what they do!"

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Medicine, Uncertainty, Truth, Wisdom, Life

"If medicine was practiced in 1965 the way it's practiced today, there's no question that prescriptions would have been included in Medicare."

John Podesta, American Lawyer

Medicine, Question, Today

"Medicine also disregards national boundaries."

Irving Langmuir, American Scientist

Medicine,

"True apothecary thy drugs art quick."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Medicine, Wisdom, Truth, Life, Power

"The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout."

Josh Billings, American Comedian

Medicine,

"A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world."

Paul Dudley White, American Scientist

Medicine, Psychology, Will, World

Explore more quotes by David Mitchell

"Humans live in a pit of cheating, exploiting, hurting, incarcerating. Every time, the species wastes some part of what it could be. This waste is poisonous."

Society, Humanity, Corruption, Exploitation, Ethics

"There're times when i suspect that the mind has a mind of its own. it shows us pictures. pictures of the past and the might-one-day-be. this mind's mind exerts its own will, too, and has its own voice."

Mind, Thought, Memory, Future

"Your leaders must know powerful magic. Yes, said one of the women. The magic is called Marx, Stalin, Lenin and Class Dialectics. It didn't sound like very powerful magic to me."

Politics, Power, Leadership, Ideology

"The empowered may serve justice, remodel the Earth, transform lush nations into smoking battlefields, and bring down skyscrapers, but power itself is amoral."

Power, Justice, Change, Strength

"She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sources. I like that in a woman."

Literature, Wit, Reading, Humor

"This is my moral. Trust what you dream. Not what you think."

Faith, Trust, Dream, Mind

"Rights are susceptible to subversion, as even granite is susceptible to erosion. My fifth Declaration posits how, in a cycle as old as tribalism, ignorance of the Other engenders fear; fear engenders hatred; hatred engenders violence; violence engenders further violence until the only "rights, the only law, are whatever is willed by the most powerful."

Justice, Rights, Power, Violence, Fear

"One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards will be at one's throat all the sooner."

Art, Music, Winter, Nature

"Glass & peace alike betray proof of fragility under repeated blows."

Reality, Sensitivity, Peace, Life, Resilience

"The novelist is more like a pregnant woman who delivers her own child unaided. A messy procedure, with lots of groaning."

Creativity, Creation, Art, Writing, Life