The Physician's Ability To Reassure The Patient

We Are Becoming A Nation Of Sissies And Hypochondriacs, A Self Medicating Society Easily Intimidated By Pain And Prone To Panic. We Understand Almost Nothing About The Essential Robustness Of The Human Body Or Its Ability To Meet The Challenge Of Illness.

Pessimism Is A Waste Of Time.

Nothing Is More Essential In The Treatment Of Serious Disease Than The Liberation Of The Patient From Panic And Foreboding.

The American People Are Beginning To Think In New Ways About Health And Illness . . . Bernie Siegel Is Helping To Define And Open Up These New Frontiers. In This Sense He Is In The Best Medical Tradition.

At A Dodger Baseball Game In Los Angeles, I Asked Will Durant If He Was Ninety-four Or Ninety-five. "ninety-four," He Said. "you Don't Think I'd Be Doing Anything As Foolish As This If I Were Ninety-five, Do You?"