Dr. Dhruv Khullar
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279 appearances
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1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 23 Jun
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It's great to be here.
Thank you for having me.
Well, my dad is a doctor and so as we all know, that's a risk factor for going into medicine yourself.
And so I always kind of had the sense that I wanted to go into medicine.
I saw the way that he cared for patients, the way that he was able to enter people's lives and the impact that he could have.
And I knew very early on that I wanted to do something similar.
I wanted to be someone who could
be there for people in those moments when they really needed you.
But I also had this sense, particularly during college and afterwards, that I wanted to understand the system around healthcare in more detail.
You know, I was in medical school when the Affordable Care Act was being debated and passed, and it became very clear both that the healthcare system was troubled in a lot of ways, it was expensive, is inaccessible, it was inconvenient,
But also that it was going to change pretty dramatically, whether because of that legislation or other economic and social forces.
And so I ended up taking a year and a half away from medical school.
I did three years of medical school.
I went to the Kennedy School, which is a public policy school at Harvard, and then came back and finished up my medical school.
And so I had a really deep sense that I wanted public health and public policy to be part of my career.
I wanted to be able to see patients, but also try to transform the healthcare system or at least contribute to that transformation in positive ways.
And then all the while I was reading physician writers who I really admired, people like Oliver Sachs and Atul Gwande and Siddhartha Mukherjee.
And what was so impressive about them was that they were able to take these incredibly complex topics and distill them in a way that was not just informative, but was even entertaining, that you could grip people and make them want to read and learn about sometimes really challenging subjects.
And that became kind of the third pillar of what I wanted to do.
So I always knew that being a
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