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There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

Drug abuse is a medical disease that requires medical professionals.

Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment.

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.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

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

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

When some people get angry, they turn into victims, but when I get angry, I turn to action.

People have the right to know the drugs they are taking will make them better instead of harming them.