One must dig deeply into opposing points of view in order to know whether your own position remains defensible. Iron sharpens iron.

I'm a serious Christian. I take my faith seriously. I try to practice it every day of the week, not just on Sunday.

All illnesses have some heredity contribution. It's been said that genetics loads the gun and environment pulls the trigger.

My daughter is a practicing physician so believe me I get a lot of the frustration from her. You get it from patients. For me personally, when I ask my doctor to send me my record, what I get is a scanned PDF of his hard copy! This is not good. It would be hopeless to work with a million people if you had to do this on paper, and one of the reasons this is the right time for this is because of the existence of EHRs.

Scientists must venture outside their comfort zones to show the public how cool - and how important - their work really is.

Science's tools will never prove or disprove God's existence.

So much of what we are currently seeing as far as human suffering and misery comes from diseases that should have been preventable but were not.