Jerry Gurwitz
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180 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2023
last heard Nov 2023
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Probably for the reason a lot of people go into geriatrics, close relationship with grandparents, volunteering to work in a nursing home as a high school student.
Just felt really good about being around old people and not having a problem with it.
Yeah, I'm going to give you the brief version.
The three-minute version is, about a year ago, I was hiking in New Hampshire with my son, who's in his 30s.
He's an antitrust lawyer at the FTC.
And I'm a slow hiker.
And to keep me moving, he tries to engage me in conversation.
He tries to talk to me so I'll walk faster.
And he got talking to me about geriatrics.
He's not in medicine.
He doesn't know much about it, but
He asked me about the field and why people don't go into geriatrics.
And I talked to him about the low salary, but then I said, well, it's not totally the low salary because people go into pediatrics and pediatricians have a low salary.
I talked about lack of prestige and respect.
And I talked about how healthcare system leaders and medical school deans don't always seem to value the field of geriatrics.
And at the end of this conversation, he said a couple of things to me.
One was very surprising.
He said, Dad, you know, did you ever think maybe the problem is you?
Maybe you have not
proven or shown the value of geriatrics and maybe to some extent it's your fault.
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