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Diabetes is a great example whereby, giving the patient the tools, you can manage yourself very well.

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 doctor I would want for myself or for anyone else I cared about would be one who understands that disease is more than just a clinical entity; it is an experience and a metaphor, with a message that must be listened to.

Anytime you interfere with a natural process, you're playing God. God determines what happens naturally. That means when a person's ill, he shouldn't go to a doctor because he's asking for interference with God's will. But of course, patients can't think that way.

Patients have the right to help themselves.

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

In an era of unprecedented medical innovation, we have to do more to ensure that patients facing terminal illnesses have access to potentially life-saving treatments.

I loved clinical practice, but in public health, you can impact more than one person at a time. The whole society is your patient.

The patient decides when it's best to go.

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.