6 - Andrew Weil
Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan
Chris Ryan
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2012
⏱️ 63 minutes
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One of America's best-known & best-loved physicians, Andrew Weil, joins Chris to chat about alternative medicine, the healing potential of altered states, and his pivotal role in changing modern medical history.
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| 0:00.0 | He said, baby, what's the big deal? |
| 0:02.5 | Feel what you want to feel? |
| 0:05.4 | Say what you want to say, you're going to die one day. |
| 0:11.8 | For example, I could kiss you just because I want to. |
| 0:17.6 | What's different if you turn away? |
| 0:20.2 | I'm going to die one day. |
| 0:23.7 | Why do you waste your time? |
| 0:25.7 | So it was with great joy and humility that I was able to record |
| 0:33.6 | the following interview with Dr. Andrew Wilde. |
| 0:36.6 | Andrew Wilde is the real life Hawkeye peers. |
| 0:41.2 | He did everything to check those boxes on the resume |
| 0:45.7 | so that people would have to take him seriously no matter what. |
| 0:49.6 | He never took the shortcut. |
| 0:51.1 | He went to Harvard. |
| 0:52.5 | He got his BA in botany for Christ's sake because he loved plants. |
| 0:57.6 | And then somehow, as we'll hear, he found his way |
| 1:01.1 | into medical school at Harvard. |
| 1:04.0 | After graduating from medical school at Harvard, |
| 1:06.6 | one of the top programs in the country, certainly, |
| 1:09.3 | he went into what is arguably the top residency program |
| 1:13.2 | in the country at Mass General Hospital. |
| 1:16.7 | Then he went to work at the National Institutes of Health |
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