Doctors coin money when they do procedures but family medicine doesn't have any procedures.

It's all very positive and very strong. They're emailing me and asking about the potential to set up our own Web site ... so that all the kids can log on just for a minute or two and see what kind of problems or successes are happening, and see what kind of ideas are going on out there.

It's not what doctors do. Basically, it turns medicine upside down.

Cystoscopies gastroscopies biopsies. They can do three or four of those and make five or six hundred dollars in a single day but we get nothing when we use our time to understand the lives of our patients.

The most exquisite pleasure in the practice of medicine comes from nudging a layman in the direction of terror, then bringing him back to safety again.

I always feel that young doctors are only too anxious too experiment. After they've whipped out all our teeth, and administered quantities of very peculiar glands, and removed bits of our insides, they then confess that nothing can be done for us. I really prefer the old-fashioned remedy of big black bottles of medicine. After all, one can always pour those down the sink.