Leland Weston: "Never take a position unless you are certain it can be defended any onslaught. That may sound… — Michael Crichton

Being on the "Hold" is the technological equivalent of purgatory.

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

I smiled, remembering Art's line about doctors being illpolitical. He meant it the way you used words like illiterate. Art always said doctors not only held no political views, but also were incapable of them. "It's like the military," he had once said. "Political views are considered unprofessional."