I finished medical school in 79 and immediately went into my
residency in internal medicine, and was a resident there from 79 to 82.
So I was training right when the epidemic really came into the full public view.
And I remember very clearly discussions that we had.
About just what in the world was this strange disease,
you would see people with unusual cancers sarcoma which we normally didn't see.
And we would, we would go read about it and you'd read articles and
go to the library and then pneumonia which you know,
we kind of new about as a rare disease of.
Immuno compromised transplant patients but
now was showing up in a different group of patients.
So it was a medical mystery that was certainly something we talked about.
And so during my career I went through in my early years
the strange disease that nobody understood.
All the way to the understanding of our,