Only one person Saturday had the courage to admit that he was leaving his cat because of bird flu.

People told us stories of allergies or divorce.

The very fact that these doctors continuing to be doctors--highly successful ones--despite their errors and their accompanying assaults on their self-definion would itself be a potent lesson to the students and interns. It is possible to hold one's head up after an error, to admit that errors are part and parcel of human existence, even in medicine. It is possible to see the error as an aspect of oneself, not the defining characteristic of oneself.

Sometimes, if you aren't sure about something, you just have to jump off the bridge and grow your wings on the way down.

It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true; I was raised in a freight car.

There's been periods of broadcasts in the past where you could see all ages of entertainers, ranging from George Burns to Shirley Temple. That's not the condition now.