To all the students who went to bed crying
or woke up screaming.
To all those who needed to leave their hearts at the door.
Besides medical school, there is probably no other four-year experience - unless it be four year's service
in a war - that can so change the cognitive content of one's mind and the nature of one's relationships
with others.
- F.D. Moorse, Harvard Medical School
This is the School of Babylon
And at its hand we learn
To walk into the furnaces
And whistle as we burn.
- Thomas Blackburn
I just graduated with honors from Tufts University School of Medicine, the class of 1999. I don't feel
honorable, though.