I like shows that have some level of intelligence to them. When it's not as predictable, when you don't know what's coming at you.

Medicine has always been my calling.

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.

People say their weight is genetic. But it turns out that people who are overweight don't just have overweight kids. They also have overweight pets. That's not genetic.

What might be happening in human beings who experience near death is that they are getting cold, but before they get so cold that they would die, they're actually diminishing their oxygen consumption in a way that is unknown. And that extends their survival limits, so they can appear dead but actually not be dead.

More often writing soliloquies of suffering and consolation than collective songs like the dirge, elegists have discovered that lyric sequences can provide a powerful means of addressing the tensions between grief's inchoate emotion and social rituals of mourning.

What patients seek is not scientific knowledge that doctors hide, but existential authenticity each person must find on her own... the angst of facing mortality has no remedy in probability.

One lady wrote me and told me how she wants to see me get beat up and near death and that kind of stuff.