If a doctor prescribes it, we need to do what is in the best interests of the patient.

I believe medical marijuana is something that, if a doctor prescribes it, we need to do what is in the best interest of the patient. It's a tragedy when you're not giving the best medication to an individual,

Patient's sureness is equal to Doctor's foolishness

The doctor asks the patient what is wrong, and then the patient asks the doctor what is wrong.

Now the hurt, angry and scared little boy was easy to spot behind the mawkish facade. Carol and I made calls and got Raleigh admitted to a halfway house where he could stay temporarily. I called Fred Goodson and had him come see Raleigh and bring him into their newly formed support group. Though we had given Raleigh information about TAP and the support group, it had probably been too much to expect him to follow up on his own. In putting Raleigh under Fred’s care, I had as secure a feeling as if I had put him in professional therapy. Joyce, my secretary at the VA, explored a job-training possibility for Raleigh.

What had happened to Raleigh was a forceful reminder to me that there was a lot I could do, a lot I had to do, for our patients even if we had no therapy for HIV. I could no longer sit and be the consultant and pontificate over the progression (or lack thereof) of the disease; I was providing primary care, total care for this group of patients, whether I liked it or not.

We shouldn't be so dependent on foreign oil.