Dr. Peter Attia

And I was like, it just kind of hit me in the face. I was like, oh my God, medicine, that's the thing I should be doing. What was the experience? So at the time I was volunteering, the whole time I was in college, I volunteered for kids who had been abused. And I was in the hospital visiting one of the kids.

And I was like, it just kind of hit me in the face. I was like, oh my God, medicine, that's the thing I should be doing. What was the experience? So at the time I was volunteering, the whole time I was in college, I volunteered for kids who had been abused. And I was in the hospital visiting one of the kids.

And I was like, it just kind of hit me in the face. I was like, oh my God, medicine, that's the thing I should be doing. What was the experience? So at the time I was volunteering, the whole time I was in college, I volunteered for kids who had been abused. And I was in the hospital visiting one of the kids.

And I was in the waiting room, and I was eating my lunch, and another patient, an older woman, came up and sat with me. And I...

And I was in the waiting room, and I was eating my lunch, and another patient, an older woman, came up and sat with me. And I...

And I was in the waiting room, and I was eating my lunch, and another patient, an older woman, came up and sat with me. And I...

she had been shunned by a group of patients at another table it was kind of weird i don't know why but they wouldn't they didn't want her to sit with them so she came and she sat with me and we we sat there and had a pleasant conversation while i ate my lunch and waited for the nurse to come out and get me to go in and visit the kid that i was visiting and when the when the nurse came out to get me the woman said she i think she assumed i was a doctor but then realized in that moment i wasn't she goes oh

she had been shunned by a group of patients at another table it was kind of weird i don't know why but they wouldn't they didn't want her to sit with them so she came and she sat with me and we we sat there and had a pleasant conversation while i ate my lunch and waited for the nurse to come out and get me to go in and visit the kid that i was visiting and when the when the nurse came out to get me the woman said she i think she assumed i was a doctor but then realized in that moment i wasn't she goes oh

she had been shunned by a group of patients at another table it was kind of weird i don't know why but they wouldn't they didn't want her to sit with them so she came and she sat with me and we we sat there and had a pleasant conversation while i ate my lunch and waited for the nurse to come out and get me to go in and visit the kid that i was visiting and when the when the nurse came out to get me the woman said she i think she assumed i was a doctor but then realized in that moment i wasn't she goes oh

i should have realized you weren't a doctor no doctor would sit here and have had this nice conversation with me for this long and i remember thinking boy that's sad if that's true but it it just all kind of clicked in that moment which was maybe maybe medicine maybe being a doctor would be the right way for me to apply both my my interest and love in problem solving and science but but with this kind of more human connection and then

i should have realized you weren't a doctor no doctor would sit here and have had this nice conversation with me for this long and i remember thinking boy that's sad if that's true but it it just all kind of clicked in that moment which was maybe maybe medicine maybe being a doctor would be the right way for me to apply both my my interest and love in problem solving and science but but with this kind of more human connection and then

i should have realized you weren't a doctor no doctor would sit here and have had this nice conversation with me for this long and i remember thinking boy that's sad if that's true but it it just all kind of clicked in that moment which was maybe maybe medicine maybe being a doctor would be the right way for me to apply both my my interest and love in problem solving and science but but with this kind of more human connection and then

Yeah, 10 years later. 10 years later.

Yeah, 10 years later. 10 years later.

Yeah, 10 years later. 10 years later.

Well, so then I went to medical school. And then you go to medical school and you decide what do you want to specialize in. And you don't figure that out until you're in your third or fourth year of medical school. And by that point, I decided I wanted to do surgery. And then you pick a place to go and do surgery. And I wanted to go to the best place that was the most hardcore place.

Well, so then I went to medical school. And then you go to medical school and you decide what do you want to specialize in. And you don't figure that out until you're in your third or fourth year of medical school. And by that point, I decided I wanted to do surgery. And then you pick a place to go and do surgery. And I wanted to go to the best place that was the most hardcore place.

Well, so then I went to medical school. And then you go to medical school and you decide what do you want to specialize in. And you don't figure that out until you're in your third or fourth year of medical school. And by that point, I decided I wanted to do surgery. And then you pick a place to go and do surgery. And I wanted to go to the best place that was the most hardcore place.

And that was this place in Baltimore called Johns Hopkins. And because one of the things that made Johns Hopkins so great, and to this day, is both the combination of having

And that was this place in Baltimore called Johns Hopkins. And because one of the things that made Johns Hopkins so great, and to this day, is both the combination of having