Does anyone know if we are allowed to mention specific interactions between optometrists & patients that we observed during shadowing in our essays? Specifically, are we allowed to quote patients? I have a lot of quotes that patients said during the time that I shadowed that I want to incorporate into my essay, but I wasn't sure if this was allowed or not. I obviously was not going to include any personal or specific details about the patient, just things like, "when I was shadowing ____, she saw a patient with glaucoma, and the patient shared that,"......" " or something to that effect.