"I had the time to try things, to stop others [referring to medications]. And what impressed me was how efficient it w…"

"Patients are not consumers, but sick, scared, vulnerable. Doctors and nurses are practicing a calling, a vocation, a …"

"[Regarding the saying "the secret of caring for the patient is caring for the patient"] The way we talk about patient…"

"Every time a new drug comes out, I read what the side effects are and how many people really get better, and I add in…"

"...when you're on your pilgrimage, you don't even need to know where you're going. You just have to know when you're …"

"What I discovered was that the two ways of looking at the body—the modern and the premodern, the Fast and the Slow, a…"

"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…"