"The loudest cry of patients is for compassion and attention, which is a call for time."

"Although I use many modalities in my practice, only 3 are basic: my hands, my voice, and my intention."

"As the patient tells, I listen as hard as I can--- not taking notes during this segment of the interview, not interru…"

"What needs to be contested in medicine is seldom the accuracy of observations but the restriction of interest--- the …"

"The essence of Medicine is story-- finding the right story, understanding the true story, being unsatisfied with a st…"

"We don't need to remake our health-care system or rebuild it from the ground up. We don't need to do very much. It's …"

"...I learned a Slow Medicine lesson: how individual medicine was. It wasn't true that one size fits all, that everyon…"

"[In likening Slow Medicine to Slow Food:] Slow Food was not really about fast or slow in time. Rather it was about pr…"

"He {Bernard Lown, MD} called for a return to the fundamentals of doctoring-- listening to know the patient behind the…"

"But in one respect these two men are not typical of postmodern family doctors, indeed of postmodern medical practice …"