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I truly feel the best doctors are ones who are criticized by nurses, patients and family. They do not make excuses and learn from their mistakes.

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

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.

I don't want to be idealized by a patient because of what I've written.

Compassionate doctors sometimes lie to patients about the severity of their condition, and it is not always wrong to do so.

If 98 out of 100 doctors tell me I've got a problem, I should take their advice. And if those two other doctors get paid by Big Snack Food, like certain climate deniers get paid by Big Coal, I shouldn't take their advice.

I've learnt some important lessons: I never rely on the opinion of one doctor alone. I do my own research; I read up and am ready with questions I need answered.

I treated as few patients as I could as a medical student, and I never practiced medicine.

One of the shortcomings of our medical system is that doctors have very little time with their patients.

You know, I'm a physician. I like to diagnose things. And, you know, I've diagnosed some pretty, pretty significant issues that I think a lot of people resonate with.