Fazarina Mohammed

“We'd been assured it wouldn't be painful, though she might experience 'discomfort,' a term beloved of the medical profession that seems to be a synonym for agony that isn't yours.”
― Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

“...by the end of my first week as an intern, I am just about ready to throw my pager out the window. A high window. Overlooking a trash compactor. Filled with highly corrosive acid.”
― Michelle Au

“Label-locked thinking can affect treatment. For instance, I heard a doctor say about a kid with gastrointestinal issues, “Oh, he has autism. That’s the problem”—and then he didn’t treat the GI problem.”
― Temple Grandin, The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum

“Doctors are great--as long as you don't need them.”
― Edward E. Rosenbaum, A Taste of My Own Medicine: When the Doctor Is the Patient