I Remember, Lest We Forget (Essay‪)‬

Envy drives ruthless men to seek to control, or destroy, those who possess something they themselves cannot possess, especially authority conferred by absolute trust. The sacred patient-physician relationship grants great decision-making power to the physician over the patient--to use what would otherwise be poisons, to cut, to remove, to amputate, to confine, to isolate, to alter behavior, to compel, or to invade privacy; but the patient allows this because the patient absolutely trusts that the true physician will try to cure, relieve, or at least comfort the patient--in short, to care for that individual and do what is best for a suffering human being.