something funny and something wise...

Here is a list of quotes from udmercy's website. Enjoy!

Anesthesia

The chief value in adequate physical equipment is not that it makes eternal vigilance unnecessary, but that it makes eternal vigilance effective. [from 1941].

What's the definition of a good anesthetic? When the patient is more asleep than you are.

If these monitors are so dependable, what do they need you for?

Never let 'em die with just you there.

Anesthesia is the half-awake, watching the half-asleep being half-murdered by the half-witted.

Another name for open & close laparotomy? Peek and shriek.

Epidurals? You go from chewin' your nails to doin' your nails.

Don't go towards the light.

Yeah, well, just don't make it look like murder.

...and Anesthesia Education

When you're in a hole, it's time to stop digging.

Honesty without compassion is brutality.

You'll always have trouble with a two-headed dog.

People judge you not by your abilities, but by your choices.

Some bridges are pre-burned.

What makes you think you can't do anything that any human has ever accomplished? Einstein had about 1500 gm of brain tissue, just like you...

THINK!

You hate to come, you hate to stay, you hate to leave.

His greatest strength is his greatest weakness.

Talk low, talk slow, don't say too much.

The essential elements of an anesthesia education are: knowledge, skills, attitude, humbleness, and fright.

This course is dedicated to the idiotic proposition that you can be taught the fundamentals of Organic chemistry, Inorganic chemistry, Qualitative analysis, Quantitative analysis, Physical chemistry, and Biochemistry all in one semester. The odds against any of you passing this course would be staggering to contemplate if there were any time for contemplation. However, there is not. Get out your notebooks. Max Shulman The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

It's not his job to remind me, it's my job to remember. Michael Crichton

It's all hoops-- but in anesthesia school the hoops are smaller, they're made of concertina wire, and they're on fire.

I'm just walking down the hill slowly...