"One thing, my wife, she says we doctors have a license to lie. And it's true."

One thing, my wife, she says we doctors have a license to lie. And it's true. It's absolutely true. Sometimes you need to lie to a patient about things that they want to do or not, much less now than in the past, because they are much more educated between CNN and the Internet.

—Alberto Hodari, speaking to medical students at Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, 9 November 2007.