Hi, I'm Alan Alder and this is Clear In Vivid, conversations about connecting and communicating.

Hi and welcome to the preview of our 11th season.

I'm here with our producer Graham Chet and hi Graham.

Hi there.

And we've got a little preview of some of the shows we'll be doing in this season and

there's some terrific shows.

Our first guest is Dr. Anthony Fauci and we're talking in a conversation that was arranged

by the 92nd Street Y and we're talking about a podcast that I did for audible called

Soldiers of Science, a really interesting podcast, a four episode podcast that's available

now.

And one of the people I interview in that show is Dr. Fauci and briefly what the story

is is one that's never been heard before by most people which is that during the Vietnam

War all the doctors were automatically drafted as soon as they graduated med school.

They were able however to apply to do their service in the public health service and

especially at the NIH if they were accepted by them but only the cream of the crop were

accepted.

And it turned out to be an unusual moment in the history of medicine in our country.

It changed medicine completely.

It's an amazing story.

We'll hear a little bit from Dr. Fauci about what it was like for him as he got the chance

to go to the NIH.

Yes, he was doing his regular internship and keeping his fingers crossed I guess that

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