It's a big issue for me - feeling like I should be helping every person who asks for something or who has a problem.

Medicine grounds me, it centers me, that's why I continue to do it.

Every hour you sit at work increases your mortality 11 percent. Think about that.

I don't operate on smokers. I tell cigarette smokers that I can operate on you, I get paid the same. And you might even do well. But it's the wrong thing to do. So I refuse to operate on you until you stop smoking.

No matter how old you are, no matter how much you weigh, you can still control the health of your body.

Here's the number one reason Americans are heavy: The brain, very smartly, wants nutrition. But the average American is not eating nutrients; he or she is eating empty calories. So you finish that 2,000 calories and your brain says, Keep going until you get nutrients.

Most food you drop is still perfectly edible. If it was in your eyesight the whole time, you can pick it up and eat it.