“I’ve had patients hit on me, threaten to hit me with their car, ask me to party in the college dorms with them, and accuse me of having an affair with their wife (who was 30 years older than me).”
ANTHONY YOUN, MD
“Ignored sound medical advice for an alternative that hurt him, like the 20-yearold college student who, with the support of his family, refused curative therapy for lymphoma and chose exercise, diet, vitamins, enzymes—and a quick death.”
JAMES C. SALWITZ, MD
“Told me she mailed in her stool-testing packet (screening for colon cancer), when she didn’t. Later, when I was seeing the patient’s daughter, I mentioned how bad I felt that we’d lost the packet. She rolled her eyes and said, ‘Right—like she would ever do the specimen…
