#poptechtalks

I was actually thinking about leaving science and medicine. The reason for that was as I was going around speaking to faculty members...as I was looking for jobs...the questions I was getting were about how my career was going to help me shape getting the next paper, getting the next grant, how are you going to do arguing for space and promotions...These [topics] had nothing to do with the reasons that I went into medicine or science. It was in the back row of [my former patient Hayden's] memorial service that I sat there and decided I was not going to consider grants, publications, promotions or space. Instead I was going to design every experiment in my career toward making sure that other families didn't have to go through what Hayden's went through.