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I'm Dr. Vinay Prasad. I'm an associate professor at the University of California, San Francisco.

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All right, I'm back in plenary session, video edition, by Joshua Briscoe. Dr. Briscoe is an assistant

professor. He works at the VA associated with Duke in in Raleigh, Durham, North Carolina.

And he is a palliative care specialist, a psychiatrist, and an internist. Dr. Briscoe, it's a pleasure

to speak with you today. It's great. I'm honored you'd have me.

Well, I have been enjoying some of your tweets, and then I thought, you know, I really want to talk to this person.

But before we get to that, why don't, why don't you give listeners a little bit of the background?

You know, not a lot of people do med psych.

You know, what is this med psych?

And not a lot of people do palliative med psych. So, you know, when you came out of, when you came out of medical school, what were you interested in and why did you make those choices?

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