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Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Samuel Shem

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Samuel Shem

Samuel Shem is the pen-name of the American psychiatrist Stephen Joseph Bergman. 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.

American - Doctor | Born: 1944

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Yes, last year in interviewing. Empathy is when you repeat the last three words the patient says and nod your head.

Samuel Shem

Samuel Shem

The delivery of medical care is to do as much nothing as possible.

Samuel Shem

Samuel Shem

At a cardiac arrest, the first procedure is to take your own pulse — © Samuel Shem

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

Samuel Shem

Samuel Shem

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

Samuel Shem

Samuel Shem

I make my patients feel like they're still part of life, part of some grand nutty scheme instead of alone with their diseases. With me, they still feel part of the human race.

Samuel Shem

Samuel Shem

The patient is the one with the disease

Samuel Shem

Samuel Shem

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