Otherwise, i dont feel that they really represent clinical approaches or ideas about illness that are grounded in science. Cspan well, you can see them on a regular basis on public television. First of all, what do you know about any of them . Guest i know that Christine Northrup did, in fact, have a pbs special and she wrote a book called womens bodiesmy gosh, im blanking on it, butand itshe had wide, wide viewership. And, in fact, all three of them, Deepak Chopra and i believe andrew weil as well have had specials on pbs. So thats a huge viewership. And their books are bestsellers. So clearly, they appeal to people. But some of the messages that they put out, i think are, as i said, not really grounded in experimental work. They talk about therapies that have not been proven. And Christine Northrup in particular is put forth as a Womens Health expert, and yet, some of the truisms that she was putting forth reminded me of sort of a bad parody of freud. What she said, for example, was
Well, the transplant is a big team effort. So i was singly not the one responsible but i was part of the team. In this case, i was the procuring team. So myself and some of our team members flew out of state to retrieve and harvest the heart and bring it back to a patient in need. So it was a long night. How far did you have to go . Midwest. You live here in town . Yes, sir. And what was the condition of the person that you got the heart from, obviously dead but yes, you know, unfortunately its always a tragic story. A typically young person because those are the most ideal candidates for organ transplants, in particular heart, Motor Vehicle accident in this case, but thats typically what it is. Some common denominator among all of the donors is that they have a brain death. Ultimately thats what they, you know, succumb to and thats when they become candidates for organ donation. So in this case, it was a Motor Vehicle accident, sadly, and a traumatic brain injury. And then, you know,