As far as the command centers are concerned in Raqqa and to a lesser degree Mosul, cut those off. Do the same kind of thing that we did with Sinjar , working with our embedded special forces with the Kurds, shut off the supply route, soften them up, then we go in with specials ops followed by our air force to take them over. Those are things that work.

The more I learn about the human body, our environment, and the universe, the more it increases my faith.

Use PMA: Positive Mental Actitude.

God would grant all of us wisdom, calm, and peace, that his presence would be in the operating room, and that his will might be done.

We are not like dogs who are kind of "What am I going to eat today? Oh, there is a rabbit; I am going to go chase it."

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.

We don't know the end from the beginning the way that God does. So when a child dies, sure that is incredibly difficult, and when you are the parent, there is almost nothing anybody can say to you that makes any sense.