“The best doctors and medicine in the world can't save you if you don't...” — Magic Johnson Quote

“The best doctors and medicine in the world can't save you if you don't do what you're supposed to do.”

“I'm the one who will take chances, not worry about the backlash.”

“I'm not cured, but the HIV is asleep deep in my body.”

“But no conversation between doctor and patient can magically turn an uninsured patient into an insured one. Doctors are just as helpless as patients when it comes to solving the problems of the uninsured.”

“I have seen doctors, in good faith, leave patients on steroids for years, thinking they are doing right. A friend of mine was on steroids for so long, she has severe osteoporosis.”

“We kind of forget because what television tends to do with these professions like lawyers and doctors and police officers, we create them on such a heroic level that you kind of forget that these are really people.”