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I believe we can prevent or delay most disease until the 9th or 10th decade. The goal is to prevent anything that can affect your quality of life prior to those years! By the time many of us get to the 9th or 10th decade, who knows where the new medical and science will take us? I am an optimist!

If we can make the correct diagnosis, the healing can begin. If we can't, both our personal health and our economy are doomed.

I think we're rapidly approaching the day where medical science can keep people alive in hospitals, hooked up to tubes and things, far beyond when any kind of quality of life is left at all.

Once we all have our genomes, some of these extremely rare diseases are going to be totally predictable.

The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.

We will 'de-age' progressively, as cures are developed.

We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them.

Diagnosis is not the end, but the beginning of practice.

It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.

Funding that is focused on the ability to diagnose diseases precisely will just have inestimable value because that's the gate through which precision medicine has to go. Unless you can diagnose the disease precisely, care has to remain in the hands of expensive institutions and expensive caregivers.