John Green

I thought it was like what killed John Keats, you know, like a disease of the distant past. And I was like, there's tuberculosis hospitals. That's wild. And when we got there, the doctor started talking about, you know, doctor stuff. And I was grabbed by this little kid who had the same name as my son, Henry, and looked to be about the same age as my son, who was nine at the time.

And Henry just started walking around the hospital. He took me to the laboratory, took me to the wards and introduced me to a couple of patients. And everywhere he went, he was like the mayor of that place. Like everybody would rub his head and joke with him and pick him up and hug him. And I figured he was someone's kid, like one of the doctor's kids or one of the kitchen worker's kids.

And Henry just started walking around the hospital. He took me to the laboratory, took me to the wards and introduced me to a couple of patients. And everywhere he went, he was like the mayor of that place. Like everybody would rub his head and joke with him and pick him up and hug him. And I figured he was someone's kid, like one of the doctor's kids or one of the kitchen worker's kids.

And Henry just started walking around the hospital. He took me to the laboratory, took me to the wards and introduced me to a couple of patients. And everywhere he went, he was like the mayor of that place. Like everybody would rub his head and joke with him and pick him up and hug him. And I figured he was someone's kid, like one of the doctor's kids or one of the kitchen worker's kids.

And finally, we made our way back to the doctors and they sort of shooed him away. And I said, whose kid is that? And they said, he's not anybody's kid here. He's a patient. And he's one of the patients we're really, really concerned about because it turns out Henry had a complicated case of drug-resistant tuberculosis. And he wasn't nine like I had imagined. He was 17.

And finally, we made our way back to the doctors and they sort of shooed him away. And I said, whose kid is that? And they said, he's not anybody's kid here. He's a patient. And he's one of the patients we're really, really concerned about because it turns out Henry had a complicated case of drug-resistant tuberculosis. And he wasn't nine like I had imagined. He was 17.

And finally, we made our way back to the doctors and they sort of shooed him away. And I said, whose kid is that? And they said, he's not anybody's kid here. He's a patient. And he's one of the patients we're really, really concerned about because it turns out Henry had a complicated case of drug-resistant tuberculosis. And he wasn't nine like I had imagined. He was 17.

He'd just been so stunted by malnutrition and then by TB that he looked much younger. And what happened to Henry over the next few years as he tried to survive his form of drug-resistant tuberculosis, which you or I would be cured of no problem, is really what inspired my obsession with TB.

He'd just been so stunted by malnutrition and then by TB that he looked much younger. And what happened to Henry over the next few years as he tried to survive his form of drug-resistant tuberculosis, which you or I would be cured of no problem, is really what inspired my obsession with TB.

He'd just been so stunted by malnutrition and then by TB that he looked much younger. And what happened to Henry over the next few years as he tried to survive his form of drug-resistant tuberculosis, which you or I would be cured of no problem, is really what inspired my obsession with TB.

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Yeah, so I mean, I want to be careful to not state that there are upsides to OCD because in my experience, it's mostly downsides. A lot of downsides. It doesn't make you better at FIFA. No. That's an incredible joke. That's so true. It doesn't make you better at FIFA, that's for sure. But also it doesn't make you a good detective.

Yeah, so I mean, I want to be careful to not state that there are upsides to OCD because in my experience, it's mostly downsides. A lot of downsides. It doesn't make you better at FIFA. No. That's an incredible joke. That's so true. It doesn't make you better at FIFA, that's for sure. But also it doesn't make you a good detective.

Yeah, so I mean, I want to be careful to not state that there are upsides to OCD because in my experience, it's mostly downsides. A lot of downsides. It doesn't make you better at FIFA. No. That's an incredible joke. That's so true. It doesn't make you better at FIFA, that's for sure. But also it doesn't make you a good detective.

Like that show Monk where he's got OCD but he's a really good detective. That's not my experience at all, man. I'm a really bad detective when I'm sick. I can't pay attention to anything but my worries.

Like that show Monk where he's got OCD but he's a really good detective. That's not my experience at all, man. I'm a really bad detective when I'm sick. I can't pay attention to anything but my worries.

Like that show Monk where he's got OCD but he's a really good detective. That's not my experience at all, man. I'm a really bad detective when I'm sick. I can't pay attention to anything but my worries.

Yeah, yeah, Tony Shalhoub, you sold me a bill of goods. Great show, but yeah, I don't buy it all the way. So I don't think there's any upsides to OCD. I have spent a lot of my life, though, thinking about microbes and worrying about contamination and having a fear of that. And so I'm sure that fits into my life in ways that I don't fully understand, but...