No matter what measures are taken, doctors will sometimes falter, and it isn't reasonable to ask that we achieve perfection. What is reasonable is to ask that we never cease to aim for it.

If the conversation people think is coming is the 'death panel' conversation, that's a total failure.

The big thing that's happened is, in the time since the Affordable Care Act has been going on, our medical science has been advancing. We have now genomic data. We have the power of big data about what your living patterns are, what's happening in your body. Even your smartphone can collect data about your walking or your pulse or other things that could be incredibly meaningful in being able to predict whether you have disease coming in the future and help avert those problems.

The evidence is that people who enter hospice don't have shorter lives. In many cases they are longer.

The definition of what it means to be dying has changed radically. We are able to extend people's lives considerably, including sometimes, good days.

No one teaches you how to think about money in medical school or residency. Yet, from the moment you start practicing, you must think about it. You must consider what is covered for a patient and what is not.

If I became just a brain in a jar - as long as I can communicate back and forth with people, that would be okay with me.