The Joe Rogan

Rogan Experience

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How do you're Rogan

How are you? Good night. Welcome to America. It's great to be here like my

25 time. Yeah, 25 time recently? No, I mean I was last here in November actually yeah I was here in

November and but I have you know my closest family outside my immediate family unfortunately have all passed away now are in California so you know since I was a kid I'd probably come over and meet them and you know come over to San Jose and like every other year.

So for people don't come over to San Jose and like every other year.

So for people who don't know who you are and what you do, could you please just tell us

your credentials and what your occupation is?

Yeah, so I'm a consultant cardiologist.

I qualified from Edinburgh Medical School in Scotland 2001,

so I've been a practicing physician now for well over 20 years.

My initial early career Joe is I specialized in

interventional cardiology so in layman's terms that's key whole heart surgery

stents if you like and then over the past few years for different reasons, which we'll probably get into, I've focused more of my work on prevention.

And how did you become this controversial COVID character?

Well, it's interesting.

My, I think controversy with me probably started a much, many years ago.

Probably I became sort of, I broke into the mainstream around sort of 2011 initially

because I wrote a article which was a front page commentary in the observer newspaper which is part of the Guardian group in the UK. a junk food to my patients in hospitals. And that was after I'd met with Jamie Oliver who I'd written to.

So that's I kind of started campaigning on the issues around obesity at that point.

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