The truth? I think something like that should be a requirement for all doctors. Even if it's just doing volunteer work regularly to those communities that need it most.

[ Which it's easy for him to say given his circumstances. ]

New Mexico affords you a lot of chances to give back and help without the hospital experience. Chances that you can't tell your mother the by the book sheriff about, for one.

[ It's a not so funny joke, and true, but trying to help put her at ease. ]

We may call ourselves a hospital here but the experience is not the same here either, and likely nothing like the one you've known either.