“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.”

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

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

“Only write if you can't not.”

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

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

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

“It ain't easy to do nothing, now that society is telling everyone that their body is fundamentally flawed and about to self-destruct. People are afraid they're on the verge of death all the time”

“The patient is the one with the disease”

“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.”

“I'm telling you that the cure is the disease. The main source of the illness in this world is the doctor's own illness”