I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.

Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals

Make something beautiful of your life.

I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it's only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.

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

Geography is destiny.

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