How we treat the least of our brethren,... that's the measure of this country.

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

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

She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life... As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.

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