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

"[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…"

"We can allow for Slow Medicine beds in our hospitals so that doctors have enough time to find out what is really wron…"