Biography

I think we'll look back on this chapter in our collective history and say, 'Well, it was pretty embarrassing that we did all these wonderful things and we made so many things possible in our lifetimes and yet people died of preventable diseases'. I don't think anyone finds that acceptable.

I'm always amazed at how poorly nutrition is either understood or taught, and it's sort of reflected in the practices of physicians today. I would rather see our patients never get sick in the first place. I think one place that begins is through smart nutrition and doctors should be smart on this. We shouldn't be going to pills and procedures and diagnostic tests full of radiation so quickly.

As unsettling as it is to think about, ultimately medicine moves forward because people learn from their mistakes, and that means that mistakes happen. But the worst crime of all would be that it continues to happen because no one learned from it.

[on the medical series 'Monday Mornings'] Here, as unsettling as it is to think about, we get to see how mistakes happen. We get to see how these mistakes, these complications, these unexpected outcomes get discussed openly and how everyone, hopefully, gains something from it.

[observation, 2013] I mistakenly believed the Drug Enforcement Agency listed marijuana as a schedule one substance because of sound, scientific proof. Surely they must have quality reasoning as to why it is in the category of the most dangerous drugs that have 'no accepted medicinal use and a height potential for abuse'. They didn't have the science to support this claim, and I now know that when it comes to marijuana neither of those things is true. It doesn't have a high potential for abuse and there are very legitimate medical applications.