You live it forward, but understand it backward..

No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you. And, oh yes, if you wanted, he woul….

That's the funny thing about America--the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for a….

It was all I had, all I've ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory..

Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborat….

What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it. The process of learning huge volumes of information about disease….

In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort..

We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the commo….

Don't Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret. Sandip Roy has broken n….

A rich man's faults are covered with money, but a surgeon's faults are covered with earth..

We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the commo….

Make something beautiful of your life..

The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician..

Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam..

If 'ecstasy' meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me..

I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there ….

Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom..

The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not..

Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It's a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then y….

We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds..

The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand..