I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.

The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.

I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.

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

By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.

My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they'll leave in people's hearts. They realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.