690 - A Conversation With Former Surgeon General Jerome Adams
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Former Surgeon General Jerome Adams talks about his new book, "Crisis and Chaos, Lessons From the Front Lines in the War Against COVID-19" with Dr. Josh Sharfstein. On the topic list: his compelling personal story, the "emotionally jarring" experience of leading during a highly politicized pandemic, and his efforts to advocate for health as a bipartisan priority.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, |
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| 0:30.5 | This is Lindsay Smith Rogers. |
| 0:32.8 | Today we welcome to public health on call Dr. Jerome Adams, the former U.S. Surgeon General. |
| 0:39.4 | He's got a new book out and joins Dr. Josh Sharfstein to talk all about it. Let's listen. |
| 0:45.4 | Dr. Jerome Adams. Thank you so much for joining me today in Public Health on Call. I'm holding in my |
| 0:51.0 | hand a copy of your new book, fresh off the presses, called Crisis and Chaos, Lessons from the Frontlines of the War Against COVID-19. |
| 1:00.8 | Welcome. |
| 1:01.5 | Well, thank you so much for having me, Dr. Sharfstein, Josh. |
| 1:04.8 | I really appreciate the opportunity to talk about this. |
| 1:07.7 | Lots of, I think, interesting stories and interesting lessons in that book. And it was a little bit of |
| 1:12.7 | therapy, too, if I'm going to be honest with you, after a really tumultuous time, not just for the country, but for me personally. |
| 1:19.6 | Well, let's start a little bit about you because you tell your story here. And it would be great maybe to introduce yourself a little bit more to our listeners. |
| 1:28.3 | Well, I appreciate that because so many people want to jump right into the meat. |
| 1:33.3 | And I try to help people understand that a lot of what I did when I was in that role was |
| 1:41.3 | inspired by, driven by how I grew up. |
| 1:46.0 | I grew up in Maryland, and we're in Baltimore right now, |
| 1:50.0 | but I grew up in southern Maryland in a rural community. |
| 1:53.0 | So I understood what it was like to have limited access to healthcare. |
| 1:57.0 | Our nearest hospital was 45 minutes away. |
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