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

The individual is the brain, not the heart.

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.

Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.

If the poor overweight jogger only knew how far he had to run to work off the calories in a crust of bread he might find it better in terms of pound per mile to go to a massage parlor.

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