“You'd think someone who'd been to medical school would be able to hear through a stethoscope that somebody was empty inside.”
“She was not somebody who'd assume other people would want to hear about her unhappiness.”
“He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart.”
“The doctor listens in with a stethoscope and hears sounds of a warpath Indian drum. ”
“...only someone who'd never been an animal would put up a sign saying not to feed them....”
“I found myself thinking of Potts as a tragic figure, a guy who'd been a happy towheaded kid you'd love to take fishing with you, who'd mistakenly invested in academic medicine when he'd have been happy in his family business, and who'd become a splattered mess on the parking lot of a hospital in a city he'd despised. What had been the seductiveness of medicine? Why?”