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I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.

Following the devastating India Ocean tsunami of 2004, I founded Chefs for Humanity, modeled after Doctors Without Borders, but comprised of chefs. There wasn't anything out there like it, and there was a definite need for chefs to be able to offer assistance and aid.

The key things I learned as a hospital administrator are to be organized, communicate, and be flexible.

Hospitals are about healing.

The biggest mistakes, early on, involved foreign policy and involved the strategy for health care.

Be an advocate for your loved ones in the hospital. Ask tough questions of your local hospital and health system about preparedness for the likeliest emergencies, and express your views on how medical resources should be allocated in case they ever fall short.

One of the jewels in the crown of Labour's time in office was the rescue of the National Health Service. As the Commonwealth Fund, the London School of Economics and the Nuffield Foundation have all shown, health reforms as well as additional investment were essential to improved outcomes, especially for poorer patients.

We're a high-volume, low-margin business, so we decided to reinvent our own approach to health care.

Food is the new health care.

It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people.