We're all on a continuous journey to try and fix our mistakes and flaws. And, believe me, I've got plenty of them.

You have the quality of your work and the integrity with which you do it.

Guilt. It comes naturally to me as a Jew and a Liberal.

The situation around Terri Schiavo was a deeply held conflict over what to do if someone isn't going to return to consciousness or competence. Who will decide? Even there, where we had settled legal rules, we still had disagreement. We're torn about these things.

Reasoning based on cost has been strenuously resisted; it violated the Hippocratic Oath, was associated with rationing, and derided as putting a price on life... Indeed, many physicians were willing to lie to get patients what they needed from insurance companies that were trying to hold down costs.

Americans tend to endorse the use of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia when the question is abstract and hypothetical.

An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia.