BBCNEWS HARDtalk June 4, 2024 15:34:00
Now, you have had pretty much two decades of doctoring. how has that time changed the way you do the job? well, i think i was pretty naive when i started, in the sense that i went through medical school that taught me essentially how to fix broken body parts. so that's the way you learn medicine. a sort of mechanical approach to medicine? yes. so, liver — how does a liver work? how does it break down? how do you fix it? then you'll move on to heart, lungs, brain. so you end up acquiring this kind of piecemeal, jigsaw approach to fixing broken bodies. and, strangely, given that most people wa...