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What You Should Know About Radiation Oncology: Anish Butala, Emily Martin and Evie Kalmar

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I was really fascinated not only with the medical side of things, but some of the. The physics and mathematics that went into radiation therapy planning. Eric 04:49 Drew me to the field physics and math. And, Emily, I got to ask you, you’re a palliative care doctor. Anish 04:13 Yeah. So it’s a good question.

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Exploring the Nature of Chronic Pain with Haider Warraich

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Something that I’d very little experience of having been a medical student in Pakistan. We are really trained to treat it as a purely physical sensation that you can rate on a scale of zero to 10 with specific tools. And it is as much an emotion that one feels as it is a physical sensation.