Matt - As an MD-PhD myself, I would take the words of a PhD scientist on the topic of medicine and healthcare with a big, shipping container sized grain of salt. I admit have not yet listened to the interview but someone with feet in both the medical and scientific worlds in a fairly serious way, I bristle a little bit to hear a PhD talk about how the "boring shit" that we do.
That list happens to include discovering the cure for Hepatitis C inside of the last 10 years. Not to mention the COVID mRNA vaccines, implantable DBS devices for movement disorders, and so on ... probably boring to a PhD graduate who fixates on Star Wars, but not so boring to someone who meets patients every day whose lives have changed forever by these discoveries.
Are there lots of problems with the biomedical sciences in the USA today? Of course. Do I think this guy is best positioned to accurately describe them? No, I do not. All of these comments I feel confident in based on the article alone, but will withhold further thoughts until I have had the chance to listen. Cheers.
Interesting guy I guess, but why don’t you interview one of the top COVID scientists on their perspective. Some of them are great scientific communicators, and also interesting characters. I can recommend Josef Penninger, Florian Krammer or Shane Crotty. Roger Seheult puts out some very clearly explained videos on the Medcram channel
I thought this wouldn't be interesting, but it was VERY interesting. Looking forward to the rest of the interview. I love this guy's attitude.
Matt - As an MD-PhD myself, I would take the words of a PhD scientist on the topic of medicine and healthcare with a big, shipping container sized grain of salt. I admit have not yet listened to the interview but someone with feet in both the medical and scientific worlds in a fairly serious way, I bristle a little bit to hear a PhD talk about how the "boring shit" that we do.
That list happens to include discovering the cure for Hepatitis C inside of the last 10 years. Not to mention the COVID mRNA vaccines, implantable DBS devices for movement disorders, and so on ... probably boring to a PhD graduate who fixates on Star Wars, but not so boring to someone who meets patients every day whose lives have changed forever by these discoveries.
Are there lots of problems with the biomedical sciences in the USA today? Of course. Do I think this guy is best positioned to accurately describe them? No, I do not. All of these comments I feel confident in based on the article alone, but will withhold further thoughts until I have had the chance to listen. Cheers.
Interesting guy I guess, but why don’t you interview one of the top COVID scientists on their perspective. Some of them are great scientific communicators, and also interesting characters. I can recommend Josef Penninger, Florian Krammer or Shane Crotty. Roger Seheult puts out some very clearly explained videos on the Medcram channel
Why not RALPH NADER? Does he not want to do this show?