A little bit about your journey as a physician. So you received your m. D. From harvard medical school. You then completed a residency in internal medicine at mount sinai, and youre now a medical oncologist at memorial sloan. But you received your b. A. In history and specifically the history of science. And so i was wondering if you could talk a little about your academic journey and how your undergraduate interest in history sort of has shaped your medical career. Right. Well, i was really fortunate as an undergraduate, harvard, they offered this incredible concentration on this major that allowed us not to have to choose between science and humanities, because i always knew i had an interest in medicine. But really the ability to combine the reality that we know, which is that science and medicine do not exist in a vacuum and that its inextricably linked to culture, politics, religion. And for me, i loved history. I loved old books. I loved the context of who and why we are, the way
Congratulations on your new book. Im really excited to have this conversation with you today. Thank you so much for having me. Im delighted to. So before we get into your book, i actually wanted to talk to you a little bit about your journey as a physician. So you received your m. D. From harvard medical school. You then completed a residency in internal medicine at mount sinai, and youre now a medical oncologist at memorial sloan. But you received your b. A. In history and specifically the history of science. And so i was wondering if you could talk a little about your academic journey and how your undergraduate interest in history sort of has shaped your medical career. Right. Well, i was really fortunate as an undergraduate, harvard, they offered this incredible concentration on this major that allowed us not to have to choose between science and humanities, because i always knew i had an interest in medicine. But really the ability to combine the reality that we know, which is that
I actually wanted to talk to you a little bit about your journey as a physician. So you received your m. D. From harvard medical school. You then completed a residency in internal medicine at mount sinai, and youre now a medical oncologist at memorial sloan. But you received your b. A. In history and specifically the history of science. And so i was wondering if you could talk a little about your academic journey and how your undergraduate interest in history sort of has shaped your medical career. Right. Well, i was really fortunate as an undergraduate, harvard, they offered this incredible concentration on this major that allowed us not to have to choose between science and humanities, because i always knew i had an interest in medicine. But really the ability to combine the reality that we know, which is that science and medicine do not exist in a vacuum and that its inextricably linked to culture, politics, religion. And for me, i loved history. I loved old books. I loved the conte
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