Stanford University
300 Pasteur Drive, Stanford, CA 94304
USA
Presenter: Sandeep Jauhar, MD, PhD
Director, Heart Failure Program
Long Island Jewish Medical Center
Sandeep Jauhar was a Ph.D. student in physics at Berkeley when a girlfriend’s incurable illness made him yearn for a profession where he could affect people’s lives directly. Once situated at a New York teaching hospital, Jauhar wrestled with his decision to go into medicine and discovered a gradual but deepening disillusionment with his induction into the profession. Jauhar’s conception of doctoring and medicine changed during those first eighteen months as he asked all the hard questions about medicine today that laypeople are asking—and reached satisfying and often surprising conclusions about the human side of modern medicine. Today he is a thriving cardiologist and the director of the Heart Failure Program at Long Island Jewish Medical Center.
In addition to his work as a physician, Jauhar is an accomplished writer whose accounts of life as a physician have made him a well-known media contributor. He has written two books: Intern: A Doctor’s Initiation and Doctored: The Disillusionment of an American Physician. He has also written for the New York Times, Slate, and other publications.