I think that we're beginning to globalize medicine now. You have to take Eastern approaches and bring them to the West, and share West with the East.

At the end of the day, sleep is a barometer of your emotional health. And so if you're not in the right place where you need to be, then you're going to have voices keeping you up at night because you have to work through those issues.

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

I used to bicycle to work across the George Washington Bridge, but my wife told me it wasn't professional.

You don't have a family doctor anymore like you did when you were a kid, who treated you throughout your life.

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 has always been my calling.