“The time that I spend in hospital is so dauntingly real that it makes my activities and emotions outside of working hours feel childish and superficial, like a sitcom, a half-hour television comedy.”

“...if everybody is born essentially good, what is wrong with our society that it so often allows the goodness to go into hiding? It is easier, I suppose, just to believe that some people are born inherently evil.”

“Remember that life is a lot like medicine: at the end of the day, everything is a matter of risk versus benefit, pro versus con.”

“I have a theory that doctors are permanently tired as they are always fighting off some new virus to which they have been exposed.”

“Sainthood is not a prerequisite for acceptance to medical school. Perhaps it should be.”

“I GOT SOOO MUCH SWAG!!!!”

“...grief is loved turned into an eternal missing. ...It can't be contained in hours or days or minutes.”