I had just completed my undergraduate, and I was working as a research assistant at the lab of Dennis Selkoe, studying Parkinson's disease at Harvard, and I had fallen in love with neuroscience. I wanted to become a surgeon. I wanted to become a doctor like Paul Farmer or Rick Hodes, these kind of fearless men who go into places like Haiti or Ethiopia and work with AIDS patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, or with children with disfiguring cancers.
Acababa de licenciarme y trabajaba como asistente de investigación en el laboratorio de Dennis Selkoe, estudiando la enfermedad de Parkinson en Harvard y me había enamorado de la neurociencia. Quería ser cirujano. Quería ser médico como Paul Farmer o Rick Hodes, este tipo de hombres intrépidos que entran en lugares como Haití o Etiopía y trabajan con pacientes de SIDA con tuberculosis multiresistentes, o con niños con cánceres deformantes.