I was lucky enough to marry a wonderful chef.

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

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.'

In my business, if I get too close to you and you die, it hurts me. And so you develop a natural inclination not to be close to the patient, so that if things don't work out ideally, you can still get up the next day and care for the next patient.

Medicine has always been my calling.

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

I really think it would be cowardly to pull back and not challenge the status quo, when the status quo may not be the right way for the field to go.