Episode Transcript: #1979 - Dr. Aseem Malhotra
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Alright, how are you?
Good night. Welcome to America.
It's great to be here, like my 25th time.
Yeah, 25th time recently?
No, I mean I was last here in November, actually.
Yeah, I was here in November, but I have my closest family outside my immediate family.
Unfortunately, they've all passed away now, are in California.
So, you know, since I was a kid, I'd probably come over and meet them and come over to San Jose every other year.
So, for people who don't know who you are and what you do, could you please just tell us your credentials and what your occupation is?
Yeah, so I'm a consultant cardiologist.
I qualified from Edinburgh Medical School in Scotland in 2001.
So, I've been a practicing physician now for well over 20 years.
My initial early career, Joe, is I specialized in interventional cardiology.
So, in layman's terms, that's key whole heart surgery, stents, if you like.
And then over the past few years, for different reasons, which we'll probably get into,
I focused more of my work on prevention.
And how did you become this controversial COVID character?