Anne Klibanski

But there's also a lot of bad in that.

It was a broad generalization, but sometimes you see things again and again, and you've already mentioned what it's like to walk into a room where everyone else looks different than you.

And what's the message that that sends?

And the answer is no.

They're inside, you're outside.

The level of expectation is going to be different.

You're going to be judged differently.

You're going to be viewed differently.

So I think that you have to look at the broader question of what does it mean for an individual person?

So the homogeneity that you refer to, and now you're getting very specifically into healthcare, is the realization that, first of all, nothing that really works particularly well is homogeneous.

And what I mean by that is you mentioned clinical work.

There is no clinical work that only involves or typically only involves one person.

Some of the best things that happen in clinical work, and I say this as someone who spent many years being a neuroendocrinologist, being part of a very broad multi-specialty team,

You want to have different perspectives.

You want to bring the talent, the knowledge, the creativity of putting together many disciplines to really look at things from different angles.

Whenever you're talking about anything that's complex and sometimes something that's simple as well, you want the vision and the view of someone who's looking at it differently to

So when we think about homogeneity, diversity, I just split it up into a couple of things.

Those numbers, and I referenced this earlier, those numbers are changing, and that's a good thing.

But fundamentally, what's missing, and this is the point I make all the time to those people who are looking at the numbers,

is it's not the numbers, it's what are you missing?