When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.

Flying back from New York, the flight attendant said 'God, I wished you were here yesterday, we had a stroke on the plane. I said, if I have a stroke on a plane, I hope the pretend doctor isn't the one on the plane. I want a real doctor.

America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world.

I went to the doctor and he said I had acute appendicitis, and I said compared to who?

I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.