The key is to cut out the middleman and empower both doctor and patient with information about what things cost.

In my own personal life, God plays a great role in the risk, because I pray before I go into the operating room for every case, and I ask him to give me wisdom, to help me to know what to do - and not only for operating, but for everything.

My experience has confirmed the wisdom of so much of what the Bible teaches.

Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement.

To THINK BIG and to use our talents doesn't mean we won't have difficulties along the way. We will - we all do... If we choose to see the obstacles in our path as barriers, we stop trying. "We can't win," we moan. "They won't let us win."

I feel very blessed to have been involved with some of the most complex surgical procedures in the history of the world.

A great operation on the wrong patient is just as bad as a horrible operation on the right patient. So, you have to have all that together.