Sally Kohn: You're doing a lot of different things in parallel. How do you manage to do all these things in parallel? Some of us could use some coaching as to how to be this productive, she says. Kohn: I don't have the greatest sleep in the world, but I'm stuck with that. But I think for all of us, sleep is a challenge to some degree.
Siddhartha Mukherjee is an oncologist, professor, researcher, and biotech entrepreneur. He’s also a writer, and a fine one at that. His first book, “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer,” won a Pulitzer Prize. His second, “The Gene: An Intimate History,” shot to the top of the New York Times bestseller list and was made into a documentary by Ken Burns. In his latest book, “The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human,” he says our radical new ability to manipulate cells is changing how we treat everything from Alzheimer’s to cancer.
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