Sally Kohn: I was really moved by your passage where you said the last time you saw Sam, he asked you what happens at the end. And you thought back to all the patients you'd been with near the end of their lives and you gave him some advice. Well, boy, it sure creates a kind of urgency around around the work that you and many others are doing. It's pretty extraordinary. You know, you can crash a plane, you can land a plane. I want people to land a plane."
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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