I thought my Beatles LPs sounded pretty good on a record player, but that was before I had heard a CD.
We`ve created an impression that life is risk-free, and it`s not.
A generation of arrogance. We didn`t trust anyone over 30. We believed we could fix all the prejudices and irrationality of the past.
We try to teach them how to make a presentation so that it`s valuable to people, so they deliver a message, not just information.
I see my job as being to facilitate the life of clinical researchers so that they can be more productive, and trying to keep the bureaucracy from getting in their way.
Even then, Vanderbilt was the premiere place for clinical pharmacology.
I think we need to think beyond the issue of absolute risk.