“India suffers today in the estimation of the world, more through the world’s ignorance of her achievements than in the absence or insignificance of these achievements.”

• For health and well-being science and humanity are one.
• There is a spectrum of care that I call humanity; it is sympathy, empathy, humaneness, kindness, concern for spiritual beliefs, preservation of dignity, friendliness and the bringing of cheer.
• There is scientific evidence that you should not cry with the patient, but plenty of evidence suggests that friendliness and the bringing of cheer is therapeutic.
• Taking time makes making mistakes less likely.