The transfats found in margarine, packaged cookies, crackers and pasta increase fat in your midsection, and can actually redistribute fat from other parts of the body to the belly.

Reiki has become a sought-after healing art among patients and mainstream medical professionals.

There were certain elements of the healing process I could not capture. And even if I was right in the science, I could be wrong in the spirit.

It's like, imagine the ripples on top of an ocean. And I'm in a rowboat, reactively dealing with the waves and water coming into my boat. What I need to do is dive into the deeper solace, the calmness beneath the surface.

Surgery has trained me better than anything else to connect with people.

If you can laugh your way through life, you can have a good time as you're going through the sometimes troubling time that we have in our lives.

My mother was all about unconditional love, and I don't think we give that to our patients a lot. At the end of the day, what they really need you to do is to look at them in the eye and say, 'I'm here for you. I'm going to make sure this works out.'