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The Message America’s Future Doctors Need to Hear
The Message America’s Future Doctors Need to Hear
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The University of Michigan medical students who walked out of their white coat ceremony missed a transcendent lecture about staying human in an age of machines.
By Vinay Prasad
07.27.22 — Education
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The Message America’s Future Doctors Need to Hear

Dr. Kristin Collier is an assistant professor of internal medicine at the University of Michigan, where she has served on faculty for 17 years. She also is the director of the medical school’s Program on Health, Spirituality and Religion and has been published in publications including the Journal of the American Medical Association and the Annals of In…

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Vinay Prasad

Vinay Prasad MD MPH is a hematologist-oncologist and Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California San Francisco. He runs the VKPrasad lab at UCSF, which studies cancer drugs, health policy, clinical trials, and better decision-making. He is author of over 500 academic articles and the books Ending Medical Reversal and Malignant. He hosts the oncology podcast Plenary Session, the general medicine podcast The VPZD Show, is active on Substack, and runs the YouTube channel VinayPrasadMDMPH. He runs The Drug Development Letter, a must read for industry insights.

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