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If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.

Increasingly we know that we're going to have multiple medical conditions, and the person who's got the greatest incentive to manage those conditions is the patient him or herself.

Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.

Patients have the right to help themselves.

I advocate for a totally new view of the role of the patient: patient as engaged partner, not passive recipient.

When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied.

Where patient needs are complex, we should provide greater support in the community so that patients can cut down on trips to the tertiary hospital.

If, over time, patients don't go to some services, then progressively they become less viable, so you do arrive at a point where the conclusion is: 'These are the right services for the future, and this is capacity we don't need.'

The healthy and strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he's got an abscess on his knee or in his soul.

I believe that a different therapy must be constructed for each patient because each has a unique story.