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Gregory Adams

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2018-12-21
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  1. “Well, it was most dramatic when I was in undergraduate studies to become health. At first I wanted to simply be a hospital administrator. That was for me a big deal to be a hospital administrator. When I was doing internships and I was working at a particular hospital and I began to see how people were being treated and the fact that people were coming into the emergency department for emergency care and I knew that if they had gotten into a physician office upstream. They wouldn't be in the emergency department almost at deaf doors at times. And so that was a passion. I probably took more of a liking than to the business side, and then I started down that path.”

    2018-12-21 · a16z Podcast · a16z Podcast: The Infrastructure of Total Health · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “You wouldn't let your mom will be crowded school. We opened up a medical school in 2020 here in Pasadena. I keep hinting. I want to be the first student. It'll take me forever to get a degree. But so far, no taker. But as I grew up, I then sort of gravitated to the business side. But one of the things that was Aha moment for me was the whole thought was in my mind was that everybody was treated that way. Then I discovered what we talk about today, which is healthcare disparities. We were very fortunate. We had someone who was an advocate for my mom and for the family. And I later learned that that's not true as a universal statement. And so I”

    2018-12-21 · a16z Podcast · a16z Podcast: The Infrastructure of Total Health · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “85. Good for her. She was sick all the time when we were growing up, and so we spent a lot of time in hospitals. And she had a wonderful, wonderful physician who not only cared about and cared for her, he also showed compassion to us. So I've always wanted to be a doctor. I still want to be”

    2018-12-21 · a16z Podcast · a16z Podcast: The Infrastructure of Total Health · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “All right So, this is Bernard. Bernard runs Kaiser Permanente, which has 12.3 million members, the largest healthcare provider in the United States. He also is kind of one of the best CEOs that I know. So CEOs kind of studying CEOs is my hobby. And Bernard is one of the best of those. So we'll get into all of that today. Welcome, Bernard.”

    2018-12-21 · a16z Podcast · a16z Podcast: The Infrastructure of Total Health · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source