Quotes by Samuel Shem

About Samuel Shem:

Samuel Shem is the pen-name of the American psychiatrist Stephen Joseph Bergman (born 1944). His main works are The House of God and Mount Misery, both fictional but close-to-real first-hand descriptions of the training of doctors in the United States.
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Basch: So why don't you ask her out? The Runt: I'm scared she wouldn't like me and say no. -So what? What have you got to lose? -The possibility -if she says no- that she might have said yes. Whatever I do, I don't want to lose that possibility.

Samuel Shem

There is no body cavity that cannot be reached with a number fourteen needle and a good strong arm.

Samuel Shem

The patient is the one with the disease

Samuel Shem

To do nothing for the gomers was to do something, and the more conscientiously I did nothing the better they got.

Samuel Shem

Gomers are human beings who have lost what goes into being human beings. They want to die, and we will not let them.

Samuel Shem

We were putting into these gomers our fear of death, but who knew if they feared death? Perhaps they welcomed death like a dear long-lost cousin, grown old but still known, coming to visit, relieving the loneliness, the failing of the senses, the fur...

Samuel Shem

Only write if you can't not.

Samuel Shem

At a cardiac arrest, the first procedure is to take your own pulse

Samuel Shem

A BMS hears hoofbeats outside his window, the first thing he thinks of is a zebra

Samuel Shem

Author Bio

  • NameSamuel Shem
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • Born1944
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionAuthor; Psychiatrist; Novelist