Heard this week

“Once upon a time, in a medical school far far away, I was taught that my sacred oath and calling was to the patient. The one patient. That has not changed. What I see now, what all doctors must understand, is that the individual patient, that one patient, that precious, irreplaceable patient, is mankind.”

 

- James C. Salwitz, MD, discusses the expanded role of physicians in a blog post on KevinMD.