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

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

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

Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.

We're losing a ritual. We're losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.

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.

...guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.