Prof Tim Spector

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So by this time, I'd got over that initial thing.

And it's probably the reason most doctors don't change specialty.

is doctors don't like change.

And they feel, well, I've spent the hard yards doing all this, all my certificates on the wall.

Why am I going to listen to this new guy?

But I think it's been great, really, because it gives you a much broader view of everything.

And medicine really needs a holistic view nowadays, rather than these minute, these people who have these tiny specialties

that miss the point.

And I think this is what I'm realizing more and more.

Yeah, I think that's right.

And we realized we only cracked genetics when we got really big numbers.

So for 10 years, I was writing lots of papers.

I've written nearly 1,000 papers.

It's crazy.

But a lot of them were rubbish.

They were just, in the early days, you thought this gene was associated with this.

And we found the obesity gene.

We found the depression gene.

It was all nonsense until we got really big numbers.

We're talking, you know, 10, 100,000 people.

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