The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.

Wasn't that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted

A rich man's faults are covered with money, but a surgeon's faults are covered with earth.

When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.

Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?"....I met his gaze and I did not blink. "Words of comfort," I said to my father.

Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.

The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.

No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.

Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school - not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.

We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.

You live it forward, but understand it backward.

Things that you love or hate very much can be your destination

Beauty comes from a life well lived. If you've lived well, your smile lines are in the right places, and your frown lines aren't too bad, what more do you need?

To change what you get, you must change who you are.

I'm experimental by nature... always exploring my creativity.

I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I'm someone else

I hope we've got a lot of fairways and greens. We'll go from there.

I am not here to change the world. I am changing the world because I am here.

One possibility for difficulties innovating is that most people really donÕt care about innovation.

My father taught me things about body language that psychologists have been catching up with ever since. He always knew when I was lying, because my posture was all wrong.

Nevertheless, when one is ill, one should be submissive to the doctor and obey him.