I've never heard God speak out loud to me. That's not an experience I have had.

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

Successful weight management really means a permanent change in lifestyle - and success in this arena provides that person with a great opportunity to model that behavior for friends and family.

The problem [with genetic research] is, we're just starting down this path, feeling our way in the dark. We have a small lantern in the form of a gene, but the lantern doesn't penetrate more than a couple of hundred feet. We don't know whether we're going to encounter chasms, rock walls or mountain ranges along the way. We don't even know how long the path is.

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.

In my own experience as a physician, I have not seen a miraculous healing, and I don't expect to see one.