Physicians From Detroit

"In medicine, especially emergency medicine, you have very little time to really understand what’s going on with somebody, the story about what lead them to this is what I look at. There’s a beginning, middle and end. It’s much more revealing and will often tell you more than tests will. The tests are just there to confirm it."

"There are a lot of demons and supernatural forces happening in entertainment right now, but there aren’t a lot of regular guys who have a lot of faults who are going out and slugging it out with the demons and the monsters. You know, giving them a real slug-fest and that's what Ash does well."

"What they're trying to do in medicine today is find a pill to cover up every symptom of wrongful living and eating. So, to eat the normal American diet, what you have to do is take an antacid, a laxative, and then something to lower the uric acid, the cholesterol, the blood sugar, and the blood pressure. Then you have to take a diet pill because of the excess weight you gain because your normal appetite is confronted with calorie-concentrated foods. And then you have to go and wash the grease off your skin. Of course, it doesn't even begin to compensate for what you're doing to your body, but that's the way we look at the problem. Instead of dealing with the cause and supporting the body the way it's supposed to be supported, we try to cover up disasters."

"Diet and nutrition advice is often focused on how much we ought to eat, and misses the point: More important than how much, how often, and when we eat is what we eat. Different kinds of animals require different types of diets. We humans are built to thrive on . The more rice, corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes, and beans we eat, the trimmer, more energetic, and healthier we become. Starch? Really? Isn't that for laundry? Yes, but it's also the key to optimum health and satiety. We hear a lot about carbohydrates and whether or not we should eat them, but we don't hear enough about the most valuable type of carbohydrate, starch."

"It is no coincidence that the same diet that helps prevent or cure diabetes also causes effortless weight loss, lowers cholesterol and triglycerides, cleans out the arteries, and returns the body to excellent function. But no matter how much research appears saying the same thing over and over again, the tide is unlikely to change because of the economic incentives for the medical establishment of continued illness and profitable treatments."

"Vegans are duly rewarded for their deep sacrifice when they discover that, in fact, plants provide all of the protein, amino acids, essential fats, vitamins, and minerals they need, and that eliminating meat and dairy from their diet provides a great many health benefits. Turning away from the fatty, empty calories in harmful, processed soy foods and vegetable oils allows vegans to truly shine, inspiring a change in their public perception from being marginalized to being admired for being healthy, trim, active, strong, energetic, and committed to changing the world. Isn't it fortunate that the same choices that best serve the planet and its inhabitants also benefit our personal health?"

"The pain and suffering inflicted on children by the American diet is so brutal that if it were administered with a stick, parents would be put in jail."

"The food you put into your body is the single most powerful factor that determines your health and well-being. … I was transformed from a chronically ill young man to a person who could be considered the picture of health. At fifty-nine years of age (I was born in 1947), I continue to reap the benefits of fueling my body with the right foods. How many grandpas do you know who regularly windsurf in the deep blue ocean or strap their grandson into a backpack to carry him on a mountainous hiking adventure? Because of proper diet, this is the kind of health I enjoy today."

"The more we think about risk, the more risk seem to be."

"After all my thinking and praying, my decision came down to the fact that I felt obligated to do everything I could to help."

"But no matter what safety steps we take or what security precautions we adopt, our risk of death is not approximately – but exactly – 100 percent. There is no margin of error on the statistic."

"It's a failure only if you don't get anything out of it, Thomas Edison said he knew 999 ways that a light bulb did not work; yet we have lights today."

"How did we become so intrigued by risk – and so worried about it at the same time?"

"Rather than reacting to every risk we hear and see, we should make an effort to discern which ones we can do something about."

"Surrendering to fear and allowing ourselves to be paralyzed by peril isn't something most of us can afford to do."

"We do not have to compare our achievements with those of others. We need only to ask ourselves one question: Have I given my best?"

"You never know how useful even seemingly insignificant knowledge can be."

"In-depth learning means learning as much about a topic as possible – learning for the sake of knowledge and understanding itself as opposed to learning for the sake of passing a test with high grades or trying to impress people."

"“Why risk?” I responded. “It should be, why not to risk?”"

"The mind, once stretched by an idea, never returns to its original dimension."

"As I continue to develop my relationship with Him, I have discovered that God is a nice guy."

"We are still able to grow as long as we are alive."

"God would grant all of us wisdom, calm, and peace, that his presence would be in the operating room, and that his will might be done."

"Whenever I face a hard decision or a risky situation in life (personally or professionally), all my thinking, all my analysis, all my planning can be boiled down to four simple questions: 1. What is the best thing that can happen if I do this? 2. What is the worst thing that can happen if I do this? 3. What is the best thing that can happen if I don't do it? 4. What is the worst thing that can happen if I don't do it?"

"I now had enough faith not only to believe there were answer, but to feel certain that those answers would become apparent at some point in the future."

"I was confident that something good would come out of yet another difficult and disappointing case."

"Say your prayers. And I'll say mine. Because I really think it helps."

"If someone in going to die anyway without an operation, then you have nothing to lose by trying."

"Like an adventure who was asked why he climbed the mountain and answered, “Because it's there!” I think our culture has developed this intense love-hate relationship with risk, in part because it's always there."

"The truth is that everything is risky; life itself is risky."

"Not prejudge others – not decide their value before knowing them."

"What a wonderful thing is to be able to contribute to the restoration of someone's health. It's not only a feeling that I'm worth something, but that I have something to contribute."

"Although we all make mistakes in life, the problems occur when we try to hide our mistakes, to cover them up rather than to learn from them and allow other people to learn from them."

"God don't make no junk."

"God has given to every one of us more than fourteen billion cells and connections in our brain. Now why would God give us such a complex organ system unless He expects us to use it?"

"I'm convinced that we all harvest the fruits of our labors."

"It is not where we have come from but where we are going that counts!"

"Be nice to every-body. You meet the same people going up as you meet going down."

"Not only we can say that we cannot overload our brain, but we also know that our brain retains everything. The difficulty does not come with the input of information, but in getting it out."

"Knowledge makes people special. Knowledge enriches life itself."

"Knowledge make us valuable. When we have knowledge that other people do not readily have, somebody need us. It does not matter what we look like, or where we came from, if we have something that others have a need for."

"Knowledge is the key that unlocks all the doors. You can be green-skinned with yellow polka dots and come from Mars, but if you have knowledge that people need, instead of beating you, they'll beat a path to your door."

"We cannot allow ourselves to be prejudiced against a subject, based upon what someone else has said or just upon the difficulty we encounter in learning."

"It is important to call on God to intervene in our life, especially when we reach the point where we ourselves have become helpless."

"Do your best and let God do the rest."

"What is important – what I consider success – is that we make a contribution to our world."

"I've never known a case yet where worry helped."

"So I'm going to say my prayers tonight before I go to sleep. I hope you'll do the same. I believe if we do that, we'll all have less to worry about tomorrow."

"If things do go badly, will I wonder for the rest of my life what I might have done to help?"

"THINK BIG means opening our horizons, reaching for new possibilities in our lives, being open to whatever God has in store for us on the road ahead. T=TALENT : If you recognize your talents, use them appropriately, and choose a field that uses those talents, you will rise to the top of your field. H=HONEST : If we live by the rule of honesty and accept our problems, we can go far down the road of achievement. I=INSIGHT : If we observe and reflect and commit ourselves to giving our best, we will come out on top. N=NICE : If we are nice to others, other respond to us in the same way, and we can give our best for each other. K=KNOWLEDGE : If we make every attempt to increase our knowledge in order to use it for human go, it will make a difference in us and in our world. B=BOOKS : If we commit ourselves to reading thus increasing our knowledge, only God limits how far we can go in this world. I=IN-DEPTH LEARNING : If we develop in-depth knowledge, it will enable us to give our best to others and help to make a better world. G=GOD : If we acknowledge our need for God , he will help us."