Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee

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438 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 23 Jul

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A woman who was dying, who had gone from trial to trial to trial, extended out her life possibly by three or four years.

And then she turned to me one day and she knew and I knew that the end had come.

And she turned to me and she said to me,

Where did all of this come from and where am I going?

Very simple question.

And to my astonishment, I realized that there was no book or a show or a podcast or anything on the planet that would tell the full story.

What is the story?

Where did it come from?

How old is this disease?

Where am I going and why am I here?

And it would seem to me, this book is almost a kind of dedicated to her because she sort of set me off on this journey.

A journey for yourself.

That's right.

And she, you know, that's how cancer became my Moby Dick.

Stories don't live in abstractions.

Stories live in real lives.

They live in real people.

And books on, medical books, medical textbooks, tend to be very abstract.

They take away names of people.

They remove all the human qualities of a book.

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