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Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed.

And while we are on the subject of medication you always need to look at risk versus benefit.

Any doctor will admit that any drug can have side effects, and that writing a prescription involves weighing the potential benefits against the risks.

The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.

My job as a physician is to make sure I have provided my patients with the best options to make the decisions that affect their lives.

The patient decides when it's best to go.

When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.

The need to understand prescription information can literally be a matter of life and death.

Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.

Medications almost always do it better if they're used in conjunction with other supports.