# Quote — Michael Crichton, A Case Of Need

> I tried to tell which was Randall, but I could not; in their gowns and masks, they all looked the same, impersonal, interchangeable. That was not true of course. One of those four men had responsibility for everything, for the contact of all sixteen workers present. And responsibility for the seventeenth person in that room, the man whose heart was stopped.

- Author: [Michael Crichton](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-crichton.md)
- Book: [A Case Of Need](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-crichton/a-case-of-need.md)
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> Being on the "Hold" is the technological equivalent of purgatory.

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> Sanderson laughed. "There's no problem," he said. "Yet. I've got a pretty tough old neck. I can keep it stuck out a while longer."

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> In a sense that is a part of the training: surgeons are lonely men.

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