Medicine, as we are practising it, is a luxury trade. We are selling bread at the price of jewels... Let us take the profit, the private economic profit, out of medicine, and purify our profession of rapacious individualism... Let us say to the people not 'How much have you got?' but 'How best can we serve you?

The Politics of Passion: Norman Bethune's Writing and Art (ed. University of Toronto Press, 1998) - ISBN: 9780802009074