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Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.

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.

We are spending most of our time in American health care fixing the mistakes that either we in the profession are causing or our patients are, without recognizing it, causing to themselves.

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

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

If doctors just spent more time with their patients so they felt more reassured, that might help.

I truly feel the best doctors are ones who are criticized by nurses, patients and family. They do not make excuses and learn from their mistakes.

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.

If you're getting different prescriptions from different doctors, there has to be some sort of check and balance in there somewhere.

Using prescription drug monitoring programs is an important step in identifying patients who may be improperly using prescription painkillers.