Best Of: Black Doctors Consortium Founder / The Life Of A Brain Surgeon

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🗓️ 17 August 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Pediatric surgeon and founder of the Black Doctors Consortium Dr. Ala Standford talks with Terry Gross about how, at the height of the pandemic, she dedicated herself to addressing health inequities in Black and Brown communities. She set up shop in parking lots and churches providing tests and vaccines to tens of thousands of people.

Also, we'll talk with brain surgeon Dr. Theodore H. Schwartz, author of the new book Gray Matters. He'll talk about how brain surgery has been transformed by new technologies, new instruments, and more powerful computers.

And Ken Tucker takes us back 50 years to Neil Young's On the Beach.

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0:22.3	I'm Sam Bricker. Today, Pediatric
0:25.0	surgeon and founder of the Black Doctors COVID-19 consortium, Aila
0:29.0	Stamford. At the height of the pandemic, Dr Stamford made the decision to step away from her role as a surgeon to dedicate herself to addressing health inequities in black and brown communities.
0:40.0	She set up shop in parking lots and churches, providing tests and vaccines to tens of thousands of people.
0:46.2	I know for certain I've saved more lives
0:49.0	in a parking lot than I ever did in an operating room.
0:52.6	Also, we'll talk with Brain Surgeon Theodore Schwartz,
0:55.4	author of the new book, Grey Matters,
0:57.3	a biography of brain surgery.
1:00.2	And Ken Tucker takes us back 50 years to Neil Young's on the shore.
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