Welcome to Plenary Session.

I'm Vinay Prasad. I'm an associate professor with University of California, San Francisco.

I'm a practicing he-mong doctor, and my interests are medicine, oncology, and health policy.

And that's what you're going to get on Plenary Session.

This is season four, hashtag zero COVID.

It's zero COVID because we're not going to talk about COVID.

We're back, oncology, medicine, health policy.

We've got a lot in store for you.

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And with that, let's start the show. Welcome to the reverse plenary session. My name's Emma

Green Street. I'm a second year medical student at UCSF, and I'll be your host today. And today I'm

joined with my guest and typical host of the plenary session, Vinay Prasad. Thank you so much for

having me. Today we have some questions from a medical student and these questions were made in collaboration

with one of my UCSF classmates, Jeremy Sue.

So the first question I wanted to start off asking was really how did you choose your specialty

or how did you end up picking hemong?

Back when I trained, we had graded

step one scores and that all set me. No, just kidding. That was the first error. No, so that's a good

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