I think the house call is one of the ways I get an insight into the ways in which people live and the importance of environment in keeping people healthy.

I had an interest in health policy and a realization that, as an academic physician, one of the things you're always looking to do is to have your clinical interests and your scholarly interests overlap and reinforce one another.

I grew up with a lot of dinner table conversations about health care and ways in which the system was inadequate for the needs of many of the patients they took care of.

I realized in order to be involved in health policy, you really had to understand more than the individual patient that we as physicians, are taught to think about.

Older patients who live alone can become depressed.

I grew up with a real appreciation about just how wonderful and intimate the relationship is between a doctor and a patient was and the sense that this was a noble profession.

I think the house call is one of the ways I get an insight into the ways in which people live and the importance of environment in keeping people healthy.