Marty Makary
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939 appearances
6 recordings
5 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 13 May
Marty Makary’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But as soon as one person gets killed by a Waymo, the media goes crazy and says these autonomous cars are killing people.
And this begs the question about the understanding of safety and risk versus the benefit that can accrue.
I was sharing with you about a family member who had to wait a long time to get a certain therapeutic.
And I was thinking about the thousands of people that died in that same period of time.
Fortunately, he was able to get the therapeutic, but all the people that died because they couldn't get access to this drug.
How do we convey to the general population the idea that speed matters in saving lives and this question about absolute safety and absolute risk around drug approval?
This is really important when you talk about risk to a general audience.
How do you convey that second order effect?
So I want to give a flip side to this.
The right to try law gives patients access to drugs that when they're in a certain condition, they can access the drug before it's gone through full approvals.
What's the current state of right to try?
Where do you view that going?
And does the threshold for right to try change over time, giving patients and their doctors more rights and more access sooner?
Or does the FDA still have to hold firm?
How do you think about that over time?
So let me just understand that one.
I've spent a little time in this space.
Does this mean that I will not need to go through a GMP or good manufacturing practice facility to bring those therapeutics to a broader set of patients?
And does it also mean that once I've got a system that works, I can use it for different indications and maybe help understand a little bit about where this goes?
Because there's many patients
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