My dad was good friends with the Bad Medicine Blues Band - one of the only blues bands in Fargo as you can imagine! He took me out to see them play when I was 12 years old and I was really inspired by their guitar player Ted Larsen.

My mother's a psychologist my stepfather's a psychologist my stepmother is a therapist and my dad's a lawyer. So it was all prominent in my life. I don't know anyone who doesn't know someone on some form of prescription medicine.

A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound too but medicine's a business today. It's a business.

Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions such as medicine law engineering dentistry or nursing.

In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust we are all worse off for it.

The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout.

Laughter is the best medicine - unless you're diabetic then insulin comes pretty high on the list.

Walking is man's best medicine.

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey at a mild season through a pleasant country in easy stages.

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.