I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it.

I believe often that death is good medical treatment because it can achieve what all the medical advances and technology cannot achieve today, and that is stop the suffering of the patient.

The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that treatment should be stopped.

On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned.

Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.

The individual is the brain, not the heart.

I vowed never again to experiment with such sensitive creatures.