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I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

Doctors are human; they make mistakes, and you have to stay on top of them. You have to ask the second question, the third question, the follow-up to the fourth question.

Live interviews are more difficult to distort.

Good physicians are rarely dispassionate. They agonize and self-doubt over patients.

If people understood that doctors weren't divine, perhaps the odor of malpractice might diminish.

When you walk into a doctor's office, you've got to have the same attitude you would about anything else. You've got to ask tough questions, and you've got to not be afraid to challenge their credentials.

So interviews are a valuable tool, but under certain circumstances they'd be more valuable than others.

The fact that doctors tend to treat people as individuals, guided by the need to ensure patient confidentiality, can reinforce this pattern of seeing the changes and challenges aging brings on through our heads and our bodies, rather than as a shared experience.

I'm probably the worst person for 'Men's Health' to interview.

Patients who trust their doctors and have a psychological expectation of getting better could trigger a reaction in their body.