Top 5 Christine Montross Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The midpoint in medicine between excessive emotional involvement with patients and a complete lack of empathy is not a simple one to locate.”

— Christine Montross

2. “Even the most comic moment contains an element of melancholy; even the deepest tragedy harbors a trace of the ironic.”

— Christine Montross

3. “During my first semester of medical school, I cannot know how the emotional difficulty of the actions we perform on our cadavers will help us prepare for the agonizing moments we will observe in the lives of the living.”

— Christine Montross

4. “Visions and voices and fear and despair cannot be captured by CT scan or measured in the amplitude of EKG waves. Try as we might, we simply cannot predict which of our patients will kill themselves, which will murder their children, and which will leave the hospital healed, never to return.”

— Christine Montross

5. “Standing on the edge with my patients – abiding with them – means that I must harbor a true awareness that I, too, could lose my child through the play of circumstance over which I have no control. I could lose my home, my financial security, my safety. I could lose my mind. Any of us could.”

— Christine Montross

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