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gonna be responsible

enough to do it,

well, that's stupid.

You need to let

people be adults.

And if there's better

ways to do things,

or at least comparable

ways to do things

but more people will do

it because compliance

and adherence and

that'll be better,

we need to pursue those things.

If we're gonna make

any kind of a dent

in the health care

costs in this country

and improve health overall

and all those sorts of things,

that's what we have to do.

We have to be

pursuing those things.

So I think the rationale,

what is driving health care

and health care change today

is different than it was.

We cannot put up

with the status quo.

It just isn't getting

the job done anymore,

and there's so much

innovation out there

that we do need to

find, harness it,

focus it in the right direction.

It's gonna have a huge impact

on costs, health care costs

and also the overall

health of the country.

We're dealing with

the immune system.

As we all know,

it's highly complex.

So as we learn more, the more

we learn, the less we know,

and I think we'll have a

lot of treatment options

in the near future and down the

road, the next 20, 30 years.

Certainly, a young physician

starting out in this field now,

when they reach the stage

after 35 years like me,

there's gonna be a lot of

breakthroughs, I think.

- Was there anybody in history

that my dad really

identified with?

There's a Dr. Semmelweis that

my dad always would bring up.

He spent his entire career

trying to get doctors

to wash their hands, not

only after autopsies,

but in between patients

and he was so ostracized

by the medical community

because of that,

he ended up dying

in an insane asylum.

It was something that now

we look back 150 years ago

and say, how could

that possibly be?

That the doctors

were so insulted

and felt that they were being

accused of killing these women

that they couldn't take

a step back and say,

okay, what could

we do differently?

Which is wash your hands.

So that's the story my

dad always brings up, is,

you know, 150 years from

now, we'll probably look back

and go, well, that was

such a common sense thing.

How could that have caused

a controversy in the

medical community?

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