"The safest way to transport a sick newborn, so hospital wisdom goes, is when it is still inside its mothers."

"Change can come slowly in medical practice—unless of course it comes in a sudden and absolute flurry of discovery, ev…"

"When I write about medicine, I write about patients, always trying to pin down the complicated pieces of other people…"

"Advice ought to be all about the patient, and that means, I know, that I shouldn't withhold good advice even in situa…"

"For many practicing pediatricians, the imperative keeps coming back to the exam room. Recently, in the pediatric outp…"

"Would you end war? Create great Peace."

"To be a god First I must be a god-maker: We are what we create."

"Hearts starve as well as bodies: Give us Bread, but give us Roses."

"Up in the heights of the evening skies I see my City of Cities float In sunset’s golden and crimson dyes: I look, and…"

"They can only set free men free... And there is no need of that: Free men set themselves free."