Bruce Miller
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109 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2022
last heard Mar 2022
Bruce Miller’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I think Cindy pushing me to think about my own experiences that affected my life, my brain, forced me to think about this from the point of view of patients.
I've always cared about this, but I left, I think, a much better doctor.
When you have to explain something, whatever it is, you have to really understand it.
And I think you think you understand something,
until you start to put it on paper or explain it to someone and the face of the person you're talking to turns blank.
And in the case of memory, I realized that the confidence that scientists have about what they know about memory is so wrong, it's so deficient.
And there were parts of memory that I couldn't even begin to explain to a reader, not because it's incomprehensible, but because science has not grappled with it.
We really care about the patients.
The research, although critically important for the future, the patients are now.
And the people who have come there, they come from all sorts of different places.
One of our most brilliant scientists, Bill Seeley, comes from rural Michigan.
I always say their brains drove them to San Francisco and to our program.
We're more like a family than a competitive research group.
We're, I think, almost utterly without any sense of competition.
The diseases are what we care about.
And the artists have enhanced so much the experiences we've had, whether it's Heidi Clare, who started the Memory and Aging Center Band, Blue Grass Fiddler, whether it was Jane Hirshfield, a credible San Francisco poet who taught me about death and dying in a way I'd never learned in medical school.
These artists have changed the way we look after people.
And the latest, and this was what brought Cindy in, are the artists and the people from underserved communities who are going to try to change the course of these degenerative diseases.
And it's been a really rich and rollercoaster ride for me.
It's changed every year.
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