To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.

It was all I had, all I've ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.

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.

To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.

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

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.

My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.