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.

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

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

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.

What we are fighting isn't godlessness--this is the most godly country on earth. We aren't even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines... that helps. When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.

What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?

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