On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service

by Anthony Fauci

I addressed public policy only when it related to my scientific expertise, and I left politics to others, a practice I tried hard to adhere to for the rest of my career.

History had taught us and it had always been in the front of my mind that nature was a more likely and more formidable bioterrorist than a human terrorist group.

“It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.”

When you delay implementing a decision that you have already made, nothing good ever happens.