150 people die every year from being hit by falling coconuts. Not to worry, drug makers are developing a vaccine. – Jim Carrey, 2009 November 20th tweet

Believe in the reasonable decency of the brethren; patients are not stolen — they run away. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

Just the actual physical ability to hold four instruments simultaneously and do some of the things that Vivien was able to do is mind blowing to any surgeon. He never went to medical school and he became one of the great teachers of medicine himself, people are just amazed. – Mary Stuart Masterson