Dr. Simone Gold
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456 appearances
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2 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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It's out in May. It really helps. I'd love to come back.
Thank you so much, sir.
Red flags.
All the doctors knew hydroxychloroquine was safe until media told them otherwise. I said to the world to stop living in fear. There's no reason to live in fear. I had no idea that was going to completely upend my life. The First Amendment exists not just so you can hear what I have to say, but humans have a need to speak truth.
Living in lies, I might as well be dead. It's worse than death. I'm in my apartment working, scream, banging on the door, FBI, FBI, FBI! Battery ram, 20 guys in tactical gear, huge weapons pointed at me, as close as I am to you. And I remember thinking, oh.
I was very young when I went to medical school. I started medical school at 19. I was at Chicago Medical School, and I graduated when I was 23 and planned to be a physician. And that was my plan. My father was a doctor, and I was raised to believe being a physician was the best thing a person could do with their life. There's a law in Judaism called pikuwa nefesh, which means to save a life.
And to save a life, pikuwa nefesh was the highest honor a person could do, the best thing you could do with your life. And that's what I thought I would be doing.
I finished high school at 16 and I did college in three years. It's interesting that paperwork is so onerous these days. I don't even think it's possible to get through school early, at least in America. But back then, if you worked really, really hard and fast, you actually could go fast. It was very uncommon. You took extra courses? I took extra courses.
And to be fair to myself, when I was the youngest person in America at that time, the day that I graduated, there are other people who have done that. There's, I understand, someone who was 22 at a later point, but it is certainly very unusual.
Yes, I did my internship. I did that in Virginia. I had planned at that time to go to law school. I was super interested in health policy and learning as much as I could, just being as academic as I could. And I moved to Virginia for a year, did my internship, and then I zigzagged, and I went to Stanford Law School.
So I did my undergraduate close to home. I grew up in New York. That was City College of New York. I lived at home. That was my parents' preference. I was 16. Right. So... I could drive into the city or take the train into the city. So I was still very protected, I would say. My father was Eastern European, just very protective.
And I finished that by 19, started medical school, went to Chicago, finished my medical studies. But to practice medicine in America at that time, you had to do an internship. So the MD is when you graduate, but the internship is you get your license. How long was the internship? One year. One year. So after that one year, I zigzagged and I went to law school.
The reason was I really wanted to, my vague idea was to fix the healthcare system in America. That's a hard one. I thought a lot of people suggested I should get an MPH. It's very funny. We should return back to that. But it just didn't feel right to me. I said, no, no, let me understand the law. Many of our founding fathers were lawyers. I just wanted to understand it.
So that was what led me to Stanford Law School, which is an incredibly difficult law school to get into. Yeah, right. Very small law school, 147 people. Harvard is about three times the size. So to get into Stanford was amazing. And it was, I would say, the most intellectually interesting years of my life was being at Stanford Law School. So what was your undergraduate degree? What was your major?
Um... You know, I don't even recall. It was some kind of pre-med. It was something pre-med. Okay, so it was mostly scientifically oriented? Yes, yes.
Yes, yes, yes.
So I was starting on a path towards emergency medicine, which is what I eventually started finishing. I was captivated, though, by law school. It was just extremely interesting. Medical school and law school are very, very different. This all played into what's happened over the last few years.
But medical school was a lot of memorization, a lot of learning material that was presented to you, much like you would a grade school child. Here's this material, memorize it, learn it, ask, in a way, questions. kind of approved questions, but law school was completely different.
Law school was really training you to think a certain way, a very critical way of thinking, to go back and forth in different people's opinions. We would read Supreme Court opinions a lot. One justice would say this, one justice would say that. So it was very, very different. I think you don't see more doctoral lawyers because they are extremely different types of intellectual abilities.
night and day. People think it's the duration of time for the schooling, why, you know, nobody would be a doctor and a lawyer. That's too much. But in fact, there's a lot of MD PhDs. There's a fair number of MD MBAs, right? There's very few doctor lawyers. And I think it's because you need a kind of intellectual, broad perspective to be comfortable in both. Completely comfortable in both.
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