I first wanted to be a psychiatrist. I decided against that in medical school when I discovered that psychiatrists didn't, in reality, do what they did on TV.

I completed medical school at Loma Linda University School of Medicine in 1984.

I entered Harvard Medical School knowing nothing of research.

Medical school education and post graduate education emphasize thoroughness.

When I went to medical school, the term 'digital' applied only to rectal exams.

I read Freud's Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis in basically one sitting. I decided to enroll in medical school. It was almost like a conversion experience.