Sunday, March 06, 2005

Quotes

The role of the doctor must be to alleviate dis-ease as well as disease, to have the quiet humility to listen when faced with pervasive anxiety, to have the strength to give sustenance when faced with despair, and to have the confidence to act as the voice of one's patient or people, through advocacy, when faced with vulnerability and powerlessness"- Richard Hortonformer editor of The Lancet