RT Book, Section
A1 Epner, Daniel E.
SR Print(0)
ID 1190085554
T1 Preface
T2 Empathy: Real Stories to Inspire and Enlighten Busy Clinicians
YR 2022
FD 2022
PB McGraw Hill LLC
PP New York, NY
SN 9781260473414
LK hemonc.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1190085554
RD 2024/04/18
AB I  REMEMBER  SITTING  in  a  large  auditorium  for  an  introductory  biology  course  as  a  Stanford  undergraduate  in  1979  on  the  day  when  an  esteemed  member  of  the  faculty  named  Paul  Berg  was  scheduled  to  give  the  lecture.  A  black  wooden  captain’s  chair  emblazoned  with  the  Stanford  logo  awaited  his  arrival  at  center  stage.  Just  as  class  was  about  to  begin,  I  felt  the  unholy  sensation  of  the  earth  moving  in  waves  beneath  me  as  a  large  chandelier  swayed  menacingly  overhead.  Not  knowing  what  was  happening,  I  nervously  looked  at  my  friend  Bill  in  the  seat  next  to  me.  Bill  was  raised  in  California,  so  he  just  shrugged  and  matter-of-factly  said,  “Earthquake,”  as  I  silently  prayed  for  the  chandelier  above  us  to  remain  attached  to  the  ceiling.  A  few  moments  later,  Dr.  Berg  sat  in  that  elegant  chair  as  he  described  his  lab  group’s  success  at  cloning  a  gene  for  the  first  time,  a  discovery  for  which  he  shared  the  Nobel  Prize  in  Chemistry  in  1980.  That  minor  earthquake  paled  in  comparison  to  Dr.  Berg’s  earth-shattering  discovery,  which  ushered  in  the  era  of  molecular  genetics  and  created  a  tectonic  shift  in  medical  science.  I  quickly  became  enthralled  by  stories  of  scientific  discovery  and  vowed  to  join  the  molecular  genetic  revolution.  I  spent  20  hours  per  week  in  a  research  lab  during  my  final  2  years  of  college  and  experienced  the  thrill  of  discovery  for  the  first  time.  My  career  trajectory  was  set:  I  would  be  a  physician-scientist.