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What does this tell you about the degree to which politics is now seeping into even the scientific disciplines? >> yeah. it's very scary. look, many of us were concerned when we were talking about this in terms of other undergraduate degrees. but we consoled ourselves and said, well, at least they're not doing it end when it comes to picking brain surgeons. well, now we are. it tells you a great deal about just how much that pressure is affecting even institutions that have long understood that the degree can they're offering are ones that are the highly ec the calcar highly complicated. we're...

Physically to be able to speak, to ask for help. and i naturally gravitated towards those very vulnerable patients. and far from feeling as though there wasn't anything i could do in this environment, ifelt the opposite. i felt i want to advocate, i want to use my skills for these particular patients, because it's not right that certain patients are kind of cast onto the scrapheap. you took a choice that most doctors do not make. you took a choice not to turn away from death, but to actually turn toward death and to focus yourself, give yourself to palliative care, the people in the last days ...

And patients who were dying almost literally sometimes didn't have a voice. they were too frail physically to be able to speak, to ask for help. and i naturally gravitated towards those very vulnerable patients. and far from feeling as though there wasn't anything i could do in this environment, i felt the opposite — i felt i want to advocate, i want to use my skills for these particular patients, because it's not right that certain patients are kind of cast onto the scrapheap. you took a choice that most doctors do not make. you took a choice not to turn away from death, but to actually tur...

You took a choice not to turn away from death, but to actually turn toward death and to focus yourself, give yourself to palliative care, the people in the last days of their life. yes. why did you do that? well, certainly not for the glamour or prestige! so in medicine, there's a great hierarchy, and you have your brain surgeons and your heart surgeons at the top. and palliative care doctors are definitely one of those specialities that are low status. we're not rock stars. we're the support act that no—one wants to be and no—one wants our autograph. butl... i believed that... ..what i ob...

Toward death and to focus yourself, give yourself to palliative care, the people in the last days of their life. yes. why did you do that? well, certainly not for the glamour or prestige! so in medicine, there's a great hierarchy, and you have your brain surgeons and your heart surgeons at the top. and palliative care doctors are definitely one of those specialities that are low status. we're not rock stars. we're the support act that no—one wants to be and no—one wants our autograph. butl... i believed that... ..what i observed as a young doctor was that dying, in a way, is a more extreme...