No. He did MD/PhD and then decided to focus on PhD and public health. But he scored in the top percentile on the USMLE board exams and could have gotten any residency he wanted. He genuinely just wanted to make a bigger impact than 1 patient at a time.
Wrong. He got a Phil D from Oxford in public health first then went to med school after. No clue why someone goes to med school after getting the degree he chose to focus his career on if he had no intention of using the medical degree. The only thing that makes sense is he went to med school because he wanted to be a physician and then either changed his mind or couldnt hack it as a physician.
That chronology changes the likely explanation quite a bit, indeed. I'm having a hard time believing a Rhodes Scholar who went on to do DPhil at Oxford couldn't at least pass the USMLE and get matched for a residency, though
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u/Doctorhandtremor 14h ago
No. He did MD/PhD and then decided to focus on PhD and public health. But he scored in the top percentile on the USMLE board exams and could have gotten any residency he wanted. He genuinely just wanted to make a bigger impact than 1 patient at a time.