Gary Brecka

You're a practicing physician in family medicine.

You've had hands-on patients for decades.

And you're just bringing that day-to-day decades of knowledge of having been a practitioner into the office of surgeon general.

So I feel like you have a really good handle on real world problems, right?

I mean, what is everyday mom and dad in America, what are they suffering from?

What ailments do they have?

where the government can possibly intervene and give support, guidance, help, create awareness.

And so I'm very fond of a lot of the folks in the administration because they do seem to be very, at least related to Maha, because they seem to be very purpose-driven and passionate.

And we talked earlier about your drive to become a physician.

And I wonder if you might just share that story with my audience, because I find it really compelling.

At four years old, that's just so awesome.

I think at four years old, I wanted to be a police officer, a cowboy.

I also wanted to be an Indian.

I think I wanted to be a fireman and an astronaut.

And I'm none of those.

So for you to set your North Star at four and be sitting here now in the office of the Surgeon General, that's pretty, I mean, that's commitment.

Yeah.

When we were having lunch earlier today, you know, we talked about just some of the basics, right, that go missed in modern medicine.

And

You know, one of the things I really enjoyed about our conversation was we started to talk about community connection, how children are becoming isolated.