It's an unspoken code, right? I mean, whether you're a veteran or, as a physician, like that oath you take, whether it's to the country or, you know, the Hippocratic oath, it's something that you really have to uphold daily, and people take it for granted.

They're sort of like, they're a bad people on every profession, but I'll tell you the last two and a half years has really, like, eroded the trust between the doctor and the patient.

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Welcome to Citizen. We got a very special guest today, Dr. Scott Farber, Military Veteran.

What's actually, so tell me, run me through your military career and then how you got into medicine after.

Sure, so I had a little bit of a backwards way.

So, typically, most people would go into the military and then eventually go into medicine. I kind of did it backwards. I did medicine first and then military.

So, but in retrospect, the military, Uncle Sam, did pay for medical schools. It wasn't the reason why I did that, but it certainly helped with, you know, with the loan stuff.

So you got, you went to, where did you go to pre-med?

So, I did undergrad in Boston, a small school called Brandeis outside of Boston, and then I went back to New York City for medical school and spent four years there, and St. Louis for eight years for residency.

And then back to New York for one year in fellowship, which I specialize in craniofacial reconstruction, with the intent of doing that, you know, for the military and then down the San Antonio.

And my time spent in the military was at Walter Reed doing craniofacial reconstruction.

So, you were in DC the whole time, you were in, well, like six years, how long was it?

No, I've been a reservist the whole time, so just, you know, doing my time each year, and then occasionally I would go up there for extended time to help out.

Are you still in now?

I have four more months in IRR and I'm done.

So, how does that work for a physician in IRR?

I mean, it seems like you're more likely to get called up than an infantry guy.

It just depends on the situation.

So, I just went IRR a couple months ago.

You know, I got deployed, if you would call a deployment, I got deployed to New York City or in the COVID when, on the comfort, when the whole thing, when COVID first started.

So, you, were you out on a boat or some shit?

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