"They always say," he said, "that doctors make the worst patients."

He would be a bad patient when the first pain faded away, thought Teleri.

"Is it true that doctors make the worst patients?"

"There are worse patients in here than me," he said.

You are just an injured man, and probably the worst patient I ever had.

I guess doctors really do make the worst patients, no matter what planet they're from, Dax thought.

Doctors might be bad patients, but they can be even worse media stars.

After all, they say that doctors make the worst patients (so he had a point to prove).

It was true that doctors made the worst patients.

"Too bad my patients need me, or we could continue this conversation at Quark's."