When I began practice I was relatively safe in assuming that abdominal pain was appendicitis or green apples. Today it is also highly probable that the patient is suffering from the fact that his wife of 40 years wants to leave him for the Peace Corps or Richard Burton.
– Gunnar Gundersen
While the patient wants the best and most modern treatment available, he is also badly in need of the old-fashioned friend that a doctor has always personified and which you must continue to be.