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I do know that detachment is important. A surgeon can't be weeping into the open wound.

To the patient, any operation is momentous.

Botox to me is not surgery.

The doctors must tell you that one of the risks of surgery is that you might die. This poor doctor was talking to an actress. It was very dramatic to me. To him, it was just a thing he had to say.

Committing unnecessary surgeries is very, very rare. And it's very wrong.

I have to be the only person in America who had a doctor say to him, 'Please don't put any more surgical gloves on your head and inflate them.'

I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation.

When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays.

The overarching issue, really, is our surgeon general should be able to communicate transparently and honestly with the American public on all issues.

My doctor is wonderful. Once, in 1955, when I couldn't afford an operation, he touched up the X-rays.