Lisa Sanders famous quotes
03-29-2025
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A lot of the appeal of internal medicine is Sherlockian—solving the case from the clues. We are detectives; we revel in the process of figuring it all out. It’s what doctors most love to do.
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In medicine, uncertainty is the water we swim in.
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Sandeep Jauhar is a compelling storyteller, and Doctored gives us a fantastic tour through the seedy underworld of American medicine.
-- Lisa Sanders
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I want to be a child doctor. A pediatry... how do you call it, pediatrician? Do I like kids? No, not really.
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There are some people who're all doctors. Is it genetic?
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If 98 out of 100 doctors tell me I've got a problem, I should take their advice. And if those two other doctors get paid by Big Snack Food, like certain climate deniers get paid by Big Coal, I shouldn't take their advice.
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The cinema, like the detective story, makes it possible to experience without danger all the excitement, passion and desirousness which must be repressed in a humanitarian ordering of life.
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We could certainly use a detective. And I've got to hand it to you, Nancy - you sure can keep your head.
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Let me express how much I don't care on a scale of one to bite me," the former detective said.
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If you think about it, the historian's task is like that of the detective.
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One of the things I have an allergic reaction to playing, especially as a black actor, is the mandatory kind of best friend/cop/detective type. You will never see me in that movie.
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This element of surprise or mystery the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called is of great importance in a plot.
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There is no reason why the profoundest thoughts should not make easy and exciting reading. A profound thought is an exciting thing as exciting as a detective's deductions or hunches. The simpler the words in which a thought is expressed the more stimulating its effect.
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