In the U.S., family physicians often become referring agents to specialists, he says. "When I started to deal with bowel, I did not like that" He wanted to do craniofacial surgery in children and applied for a neurosurgeon's program but was told it would be three years before there was an opening. The guy who was slotted for that position was dating the nurse who headed the neurosurgery ward; they had a falling out. And so then he called me up saying we have a sudden opening.
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Jim Doty is a clinical professor of neurosurgery at Stanford University and founder and director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education at Stanford. These days he spends his time researching compassion and the links to our brains. He is also the author of the self-help book called Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon's Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart.
This conversation was fascinating in it we talk about a whole bunch of things including neuroscience, mindfulness, medical school, negative self-talk, compassion and meeting the Dalai Lama.
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