"No human being is boring. If we feel bored, one of two things is happening - either the patient is avoiding what's really bothering him, and the words are a cover, or the patient is talking about an issue that we haven't resolved for our self, and boredom is our defense."
"Das von den beanstandeten Äußerungen angesprochene Kollektiv umfasste mehr als 40.000 Ärzte, die am 4. Dezember 2006 ihre Praxen geschlossen hielten. Damit war der Personenkreis derart groß und unübersehbar, dass der Einzelne von dem auf die Gesamtheit gemünzten Angriff nicht in seinen Persönlichkeitsrechten betroffen war."
"If anyone is to blame for moving from a professional contract to a jump-through-the-hoops contract it is the government. All this comes, of course, from listening to management consultants who seem to think that people will work only for money and have no concept of professionalism. Professionalism is under threat. It is very sad."
"It is my privilege and duty to care for people who come to see me ---- as patients. There is a respect involved with that term which is absent from the term consumer, and which is important in maintaining the dignity of the individual."