It's Thursday, November 4th, and welcome back to Goodfellows, a Hoover Institution

broadcast exploring social, economic, political, and geopolitical concerns.

I'm Bill Whalen. I'm a Hoover Distinguished Policy Fellow. I'll be your moderator today,

which means it live here from the Senior Commons on the grounds of the Hoover Institution. I'm Bill Whalen. I'm a Hoover Distinguished Policy Fellow. I'll be your moderator today, which means that live here from the senior comments on the grounds of the Hoover Institution,

I'm in very close proximity to three wise men who we joking refer to as the Goodfellows.

That would be the historian Neil Ferguson, the economist John Cochran, and the geostrategist

hopeless optimist, Lieutenant General, A.R. McM Master. And we're only 30 seconds of the show.

And I'm going to correct myself.

I said three wise men.

Let's make it four.

Our guest today is Dr. Jay Bottacharya.

He's a professor of health policy at Stanford University School of Medicine.

Alert, good fellow viewers.

We remember we had Jay on the show in January to talk about COVID.

COVID is still here and we've once again asked Jay to come back and talk about health policy.

I'm joining us today. Yeah, great to be here. Okay, I'm looking around this panel here right now. I see a PhD. I see a PhD. I see a PhD slash MD. Correct?

So how many of you thought about at one point getting an MD, going into science or medicine, some sort of scientific following?

Well, I was supposed to because, of course, my father was a doctor.

And in Scotland, it's considered a hereditary profession.

But I couldn't stand the sight of blood.

And it looked like far too much work. And so I opted out of medicine and it looked like far too much work.

And so I opted out of medicine and became a doctor of philosophy.

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