I had just completed my undergraduate, and I was working as a research assistant at the lab of Dennis Selkoe, studying Parkinson's disease at Harvard, and I had fallen in love with neuroscience. I wanted to become a surgeon. I wanted to become a doctor like Paul Farmer or Rick Hodes, these kind of fearless men who go into places like Haiti or Ethiopia and work with AIDS patients with multidrug-resistant
Tocmai absolvisem facultatea şi lucram ca cercetător asistent la laboratorul lui Dennis Selkoe, studiind boala lui Parkinson la Harvard şi îndrăgostisem de neurologie. Vroiam să devin chirurg, un doctor ca Paul Farmer sau Rick Hodes, astfel de neînfricaţi ce merg în locuri ca Haiti sau Etiopia şi lucrează cu pacienţi cu SIDA cu tuberculoză