The Affordable Care Act also offered protections that allow for preexisting conditions, as people know, that you're provided coverage and you can mai….

My biggest fear, that 27 percent of Americans under 65 have an existing health condition that, without the protections of the Affordable Care Act, wo….

Developing a skill is painful, though. It is difficult. And that's part of the satisfaction. You will only find meaning in what you struggle with. Wh….

I think the extreme complexity of medicine has become more than an individual clinician can handle. But not more than teams of clinicians can handle..

We always hope for the easy fix: the one simple change that will erase a problem in a stroke. But few things in life work this way. Instead, success ….

Human interaction is the key force in overcoming resistance and speeding change..

Sometimes we can offer a cure, sometimes only a salve, sometimes not even that. But whatever we can offer, our interventions, and the risks and sacri….

We look for medicine to be an orderly field of knowledge and procedure. But it is not. It is an imperfect science, an enterprise of constantly changi….

No matter what measures are taken, doctors will sometimes falter, and it isn't reasonable to ask that we achieve perfection. What is reasonable is to….

We have medicalized aging, and that experiment is failing us..

You may not control life's circumstances, but getting to be the author of your life means getting to control what you do with them..

Don’t let yourself be. Find something new to try, something to change. Count how often it succeeds and how often it doesn’t. Write about it. Ask a pa….

No travel ban or quarantine will seal a country completely. Even if travel could be reduced by eighty per cent-itself a feat-models predict that new ….

A failure often does not have to be a failure at all. However, you have to be ready for it-will you admit when things go wrong? Will you take steps t….

When I do an operation, it's half a dozen people. When it goes beautifully, it's like a symphony, with everybody playing their part..

We now have 30 percent, for example, of Medicare patients who are seeing doctors who are rewarded for doing this kind of work, like high blood pressu….

These are folks that keep people out of hospitals, out of emergency rooms, out of nursing homes. And not only that, they help people achieve more ful….

When we, doctors, ask patients what their priorities are if time is short, what we do is we use what is available to us - whether it's geriatric care….

In the end, people don't view their life as merely the average of all its moments-which, after all, is mostly nothing much plus some sleep. For human….

Life is choices, and they are relentless. No sooner have you made one choice than another is upon you..

If we took away the ability to put defibrillators in people in their last years, people would be shouting in the streets..