Dax Shepard

I went to medical school in Jerusalem and they said, don't bother.

They don't take foreign medical graduates.

And I said, okay, I'll just go and at least I'll get to talk to all these interesting researchers.

And I read about the research and some of the people I knew about the research.

Because usually you go and you go to grand rounds, you spend the day on the wards.

And I said, no, I want to meet with the researchers.

So then I met with one guy who seemed kind of like old and very non-threatening.

And I knew about his work.

So I told him how much I liked his work, but I could have been improved.

There's all these different shortcomings in his methodology.

And it sort of went on and on.

I was just like, what do I have to lose?

You had nothing to lose.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And at the end of it, he said, okay, I want you to meet with a few more people.

He called a few more people around.

It was the Department of Epidemiology.

And they all got together and wrote a letter on my behalf to the head of the residency program.

Oh, you're kidding.

And that's how I got in.