You asked why I treat you so badly; why I say things I wouldn't say to anybody else. I'm like a little kid with a crush on a girl, so what does he do? He pulls her pigtails.
It's tricky. The first part of Hippocratic oath is clear, right? "Do no harm." Then it goes on to say, "I'will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science." So it's tricky.
You know what I am going to tell you why I think you threw yourself in front of that car. It's precisely because you think you have the perfect life and you're still miserable.
It's called endogenous depression. And it's caused by your brain chemistry. And like so many people who suffer from depression, you ashamed to tell anybody about it because you think it's your fault.
Ok, look. Why don't you call your wife. Tell her where you are. Why you're here. She's an attorney, she'll get you out of here in 5 minutes. She knows what to do. Oh, what? You don't want to call her? Why, are you worried that maybe if she finds out that you're not the brave strong man she married she might not love you anymore? Did you know the single greatest challenge that I face is trying to convince people that depression isn't a sign of weakness.
Ok. You know I got to hand it to you, you are... you're one hell of a performer. I mean, a real trooper. Keeping it up for so long. Selling this idea you think of who you need to be all the time. Carrying around the weight of that performance... isn't it tiring? Aren't you exhausted? I think it be exhausting.
We do. Ms. Patrick will have to be on life support for two weeks for hormone stimulation therapy, followed by the retrieval itself. It's an expensive and complicated procedure.
[describing a patient with body integrity identity disorder] These people believe that one of their limbs, part of their body, is not their own. His sense of self does not extend to the fingers on his left arm. It stops at the elbow.
I mean, who are any of us to say where we end, right? Or begin. Physicists will tell you there's no physical self at all, right? Just waves of energy. A mystics will say that we're one big soup.
I'm not a physicist or a mystic, I'm a doc who spent his career treating wounded soldiers who begged me "Save my leg", "Save my arm". You don't think I should commit this guy?
No, you cared. I think, if we care, then whatever happens, it's for something. We might not see the effect, but It goes out there and it circulates around. It makes us all better, you know?
