"I have often wondered at the smugness with which people assert their right to enslave
me, to control my work, to force my will, to violate my conscience, to stifle my
mind -- yet what is it that they expect to depend on, when they lie on an operating
table under my hands? Let them discover the kind of doctors that their system will
now produce. Let them discover, in their operating rooms and hospital wards, that
it is not safe to place their lives in the hands of a man whose life they have throttled.
It is not safe, if he is the sort of man who resents it -- and still less safe,
if he is the sort who doesn't."
-- Neurosurgeon Dr. Thomas Hendricks, in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged
