18. Routine Miracles. Conrad Fischer. 336 pages. March 2011.
This is the kind of stuff that has been getting most of my attention lately. TED, Conrad Fischer, great people in every field, investigation opportunities in the United States, Phd and Postdoctoral careers. My mind is lately filled with this kind of stuff, I want to go to the United States to have the opportunities, I may not be one of this brilliant minds but I want to be as close to them as it can be. I have the drive, the desire, I want to help in the construction of what I think is the knowledge, and pyramid in which even the wrong bricks help and is constantly rising.
"The object is to inoculate the best and brightest of our society against negativity, false despair, and fear... To shield their minds from a rampant cynicism and narrow mindedness of senior physicians and faculty and to inspire them to get back in that laboratory to choose the most difficult problems to solve in medicine and find cures - for cancer, for rheumatoid arthritis, for asthma, for blindness, for depression, and for myriad other causes of suffering. The best minds of our generations will need positivity and optimism, unlimited energy and enthusiasm. And they will need the confident hope that when you gather the smartest people in the room in the search for a cure, they will find it."
