Thoughtful conversations with the people of Maine

I was super insecure in college, and the way that I dealt with that was I projected confidence. It turned out that I was able to sometimes make people laugh, and so that you kind of grab onto that and it becomes a reinforcing thing. But what I had to learn after college was to actually step back, step back, let other people talk, listen to what they have to say.

If we had access to our feelings, which I think is what the artist brings to the world in a lot of ways, we're like the smelling salts. Go wake up and feel something. We'd have a very different world.

Before I went into medicine, I was actually an art historian. So art and art history is really very important to me. When you look very carefully at Mona Lisa, you'll find signs of hypercholesterolemia. And I'm not just making this up, it's very clear that the painter painted that.