Interview w/ Dr. Gary Simonds - Neurosurgeon and Author

Mysterious Circumstances

Age Of Radio + Bleav

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

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🗓️ 27 June 2023

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Dr. Gary Simonds is a highly experienced neurosurgeon, former head of an academic neurosurgery program at Virginia Tech/Carilion Clinic. He is a Professor, and teaches regularly at, the Virginia Tech School of Neuroscience and the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine.He was a biochemistry major at Dartmouth College. He went on to medical school at Rutgers and Neurosurgery residency and medical research fellowship at Walter Reed. He also holds a master’s degree in Health Care Delivery Science from Dartmouth. Gary has written and spoken widely on the subjects of neuroscience, medical school admissions, humanism, medical socioeconomics, medical ethics, burnout, personal wellness, spirituality, death and dying, and the interface between science and religion. He's also the author of the book 'Death's Pale Flag', which combines neurosurgery and the paranormal. In this episode we discuss his book and also talk about the paranormal, sleep paralysis, near death expierences, and so much more.

You can pick up a copy of his book 'Death's Pale Flag' anywhere. -- https://www.amazon.com/Deaths-Pale-Flag-Gary-Simonds/dp/B003R3111Ehttps://www.amazon.com/Deaths-Pale-Flag-Gary-Simonds/dp/B003R3111E

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. Welcome to Mysterious Circumstances podcast. I have a very, very special guest
0:20.2	on who hits me right now. And this is something that I don't normally do. I mean, I do, but
0:27.0	I got hit up in an email and it's like, hey, you know, we're doing some interviews with some
0:32.3	authors. And I saw this book and I was like, I want to talk to that guy because I am super, super
0:39.8	curious. I'm here with Gary Simmons. He wrote a book called Despail Flag. And why I found it so
0:46.4	interesting is because it combines neuroscience with the paranormal. Gary, you can tell is highly
0:53.8	educated. If you read the episode description, you can see all of his accolades and education
0:59.9	and in his books. And there's also a link to his book in there as well. So Gary, welcome,
1:05.6	welcome to the show. How are you today, man? I'm great. And thank you so much for having me and
1:11.6	I am honored. All right. I'm very happy to have you on. I guess let's get started with some of
1:17.5	your background. What got you interested in neuroscience in the first place and being a neurosurgeon?
1:24.4	Oh, geez. We're really digging back now. You know, you go through when you're in medical school,
1:32.4	you go through all sorts of incarnations of what you're going to be. And I went through a whole
1:38.6	bunch. I started, I think, with I was going to be a family doc and then I was going to be a
1:43.8	cancer doc and then I was going to be a general surgeon. Then I was going to be a cardiothoracic
1:49.1	surgeon and that's kind of where I was set to go into training. You know, you do your residency
1:55.2	training after medical school. But and so I had a residency all set up and I was prepared to kind
2:01.6	of go down the the tracks of a cardiothoracic surgeon when my last month in medical school,
2:10.0	literally the last month. I saw my first brain operation and I literally kind of stood there
2:17.2	and all I went, oh my god, I've got to do that. And I mean, I had to kind of switch engines in,
2:26.0	you know, mid in mid track and run around the country trying to find a place that would train me.
2:34.3	But it was it was one of those truly, it was one of those, I guess, epiphanies where you're like,
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