David Elkin
speaker
521 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2021
last heard Nov 2021
David Elkin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I join a group of people, I'm very trepidatious.
They're making a refrigerator.
They've already made the refrigerator though, so I think fast, I crouch down.
I'm the freezer.
And I'm wondering
What am I doing here?
It doesn't take long to figure out why I'm here.
I'm a psychiatrist.
And I remember I'm here because of Kevin.
Kevin is my
Charismatic and brilliant colleague from back home.
Kevin was a compact man who just radiated energy and enthusiasm.
He could make any task fun.
And we quickly bonded over our love and passion for teaching, the fact that we were both parents of small children.
We became collaborators, uh, we ran grand rounds together, we became friends, and in spite of the fact that he was
Only recently, ten years out of medical training, psychiatric training.
He became my mentor, probably the best one I ever had.
His rise through the university was meteoric.
He was
traveling everywhere, working on medical school curriculum change in Africa, consulting with the World Health Organization in Switzerland, teaching in Italy and Japan.
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