Dhruv Khullar

Storytelling, I think, is going to be a really important part of the future.

I mean, it sounds old-fashioned, but really, because there's so much information out there, there's so much disparate information, it's very hard for people to sift through it all.

It's also possible, you

to get abstract in your thinking and not tie it back to real people's lives.

When I'm in the hospital, I am interacting with the challenges that people are facing in a very real way.

And in a way, so many of the challenges that are in society, not just medical, but more general, they find their way into the emergency room.

They find their way

into the hospital, whether it's misinformation or homelessness, whatever it might be.

But if you're able to tell a compelling story, if you're going to put together, synthesize things into a narrative, that can be really helpful in helping people put it all together.

And the other thing I'll mention, sometimes it's very helpful to just reach back to history and help people understand, you know, this new medication sounds like it's going to be amazing.

Or that intervention, that device is something I want to get my hands on today and we don't want to wait for the studies to come out to prove them effective.

There have been many, many, many claims that have been made in the past about similar things that turned out to be either not effective or harmful.

I think it's important to point out that even something like 90% of drugs that make it to phase one clinical trials work.

let alone drugs that never even make it to phase one clinical trials, they end up failing before they become medications.

And so just because something looks interesting or has some suggestive data, let's say in animal studies, doesn't mean that it's going to be effective in people.

Ah, Aristotle.

Yes, of course.

All talks should end with Aristotle.

Right?

moderation is so important.