If you want to be healthy and live to one hundred, do qigong.

It takes around 30 minutes for your body to realize you're full, so if you're hungry when you sit down to eat, and you eat as quickly as most Americans do, you're just going to keep throwing down food before that feeling kicks in.

Medicine is a jealous mistress. It demands all your time.

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 has always been my calling.

Food - I love nuts. I eat them all the time, they're easy to carry around, and I am never hungry all day long.

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