I'm one of six kids, and the eight of us lived for over a decade in either a bus or a boat.

I think we will see better vaccines within the next 15 years, but I'm not a scientist and am focused on the short-term - what will happen in the interim.

Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now vote but they can't get medical care or clean water.

In an age of explosive development in the realm of medical technology, it is unnerving to find that the discoveries of Salk, Sabin, and even Pasteur remain irrelevant to much of humanity.

I'm not an austere person.

I critique market-based medicine not because I haven't seen its heights but because I've seen its depths.

The thing about rights is that in the end you can't prove what should be considered a right.