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Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.

I think my father gave me a great reverence for medical science. He was about as opposite to the personality of House as one could imagine. He was polite and easygoing, and would have gone to great lengths to make his patients feel attended to and heard and sympathized with.

Family and moral values are so central to everything that I am.

I wanted to be a surgeon, possibly influenced by the qualities of our family doctor who cared for our childhood ailments.

I appreciate health care that gets to the root cause of our symptoms and promotes wellness, rather than the one-size-fits-all drug-based approach to treating disease. I love maintaining an optimal quality of life - naturally.

I really admire medical people. They have a great sense of humour, and they just have to get on with it.

I was good at being a doctor; my patients liked me. At times people trust you with things they wouldn't tell their spouses. It was a real privilege.

I value humor, kindness, and the ability to tell a good story far more than money, status, or the kind of car someone drives.

As a heart surgeon I am on constant call, and when not researching or giving lectures, I like to be with my family.

My background is that I came from a middle class family, and I think those values stay where ever you go.