Book: Notes of a doctor

There is the most unnatural movements and conditions in which life would not make people spend all their time; there are no such poisons, which she didn't force them to breathe; no such living conditions, which she hadn't forced them to live.

Full the inevitable always has something apologetic with him.

Ashamed and sad look into the eyes of the patient, to whom I was not able to help. <...>
This I can help, this is not present; and they all come to me, all equally entitled to expect from me salvation. And so be clear to those desperate cries of anguish and downs of faith in his case, which is full of intimate letters of the strongest representatives of science. And the one is stronger, the more condemned to feel their impotence.

Where man sees no threat to its benefit, it can easily be both honest and humane.

Virtually every step forward in their science tainted by crime.

The existence of a medical school - school of humanity of all Sciences is unthinkable without the violation of the most basic humanity.

We are so afraid of all the truth, so few recognize its necessity, which is to open at least one little area, and people begin to feel uncomfortable.

Medicine is the science of treating people. So it went on the books, so went and what we saw in the University hospital. But life has proved that medicine is the science of treating only the rich and free people. In relation to all the others it was only a theoretical science of how you could cure them, if they were rich and free; and that the absence of the latter they had to offer was nothing short of the most shameless mockery of medicine.