Realistic Medicine: What does it mean to me? Fran Benison Patient Representative Patient & Public Forum for Medicines

William Osler Canadian Physician 1849 – 1919 “Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease”

Thomas Edison American Inventor 1847 – 1931 “The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will instruct his patients in care of the human frame, in diet and the cause and prevention of disease”

James Thornton Retired Engineer 1925 – “I look after myself as well as I can, which helps the doctor and other healthcare people look after me as well as they can. We all work well together”