A lot of people have talked about the lost soul of medicine, how medicine has changed. The demise of the bedside examination and the refuge we seek in powerful technology is a symptom of that -- we're becoming more technicians and less healers.

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food, and medicine to the soul.

Man is his own star; and the soul that can/ Render an honest and a perfect man/ Commands all light, all influence, all fate./Nothing to him falls early, or too late./Our acts our angels are, or good or ill,/ Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.

Cystoscopies gastroscopies biopsies. They can do three or four of those and make five or six hundred dollars in a single day but we get nothing when we use our time to understand the lives of our patients.

I've been studying this for more than 20 years. This is not 'alternative medicine.' We are inducing a fever, as though we were giving the patient malaria or a bad case of the flu.

They've got all kinds of scientific studies, good peer-reviewed medicine, that shows how important particulate matter is to causing morbidity and mortality. I have even seen some scientific evidence that it causes asthma, not just exacerbation of it.