Part of what any good health-care professional does, including an advanced-practice nurse, is know when it is time to seek help from more experienced professionals. I'm a primary care doctor. It doesn't mean I know everything. When something is beyond my competency or expertise, I seek consultation from my colleagues.

I've always approached my job first as a physician. I'm here to help and take care of patients. I'm an administrator second.

My career goal is to work as a liaison between organized medicine, government, and third-party payers.

I don't believe that the problems in the VA are necessarily about money. When I look back over the problems of the VA over the past decade, this is fundamentally a system that hasn't kept up with modernization in the way that the rest of health care in the private sector has.

Canada is currently the only major industrialized country in the world that does not allow any private administration of health care services that are provided by the public system.

Lifestyle changes may slow, stop, or even reverse the progression of early-stage prostate cancer.

After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.

Life is a perspective and for me, if a human being has access to school, clean water, food, proper health care, that is the basis of human rights.