It is up to me now to choose how to live out the months that remain to me.

First thing about being a patient-you have to learn patience.

Astounded—and indifferent—for he was a man who, in effect, had no ‘day before’.

There is among doctors, in acute hospitals at least, a presumption of stupidity in their patients.

It really is a very odd business that all of us, to varying degrees, have music in our heads.

I cannot pretend i am not without fear.

Muscular dystrophy ... was never seen until Duchenne described it in the 1850s. By 1860, after his original description, many hundreds of cases had been recognised and described, so much so that Charcot said: 'How is it that a disease so common, so widespread, and so recognisable at a glance - a disease which has doubtless always existed - how is it that it is recognised only now? Why did we need M. Duchenne to open our eyes?'