Too often you see someone fall, break a rib, go in to the doctor and discover a tumor.

Anywhere from 40% to 60% of people, when they're given a requisition by a doctor to go get tested, don't, because they're scared of needles or the locations are inconvenient or the cost is too high. And if you're not even getting tested, how is it possible that we're going to move toward an era of preventive medicine?

If you don't like something, talk about something else that's great and maybe someone else will discover it and think it's great too.

She's halfway through the treatments and reports from her doctor are favorable. The tumor is 50 percent of what it was, so that's a good thing. We take things day by day, one day at a time.

Too often, we have tended to fall into a trap of creating plain hamburgers.

The art of phlebotomy originated with bloodletting in 1400 B.C., and the modern clinical lab emerged in the 1960s - and it has not fundamentally evolved since then. You go in, sit down, they put a tourniquet on your arm, stick you with a needle, take these tubes and tubes of blood.