Short questions with Dana Perino for Dr. Marc Siegel

You've seen america connected screen, but person you ever wondered what we're for illustration off-camera?

For nan past fewer months, I’ve enjoyed checking successful pinch immoderate of your favourite Fox personalities to study much astir who they are down nan scenes.

What's nan 1 point Jesse Watters couldn’t unrecorded without? What's Bill Hemmer’s favourite Halloween costume? And what's sitting connected Greg Gutfeld’s nightstand? 

But that's not all! The nosy is conscionable getting started.

This week, we're excited to radiance nan spotlight connected Dr. Marc Siegel. A Fox News aesculapian contributor since 2008, he is simply a objective professor of medicine and practicing internist astatine NYU Langone Medical Center successful New York City. 

He contributes insights and observations to an array of wellness stories arsenic well.

Dr. Siegel has interviewed apical experts astir nan COVID-19 pandemic, including nan board of HHS, NIH, CDC, FDA, NIAID and AMA. He is nan writer of six books, including, astir recently, "COVID: The Politics of Fear and nan Power of Science," as good as "False Alarm: nan Truth astir nan Epidemic of Fear," "Bird Flu: Everything You Need to Know astir nan Next Pandemic," and "Swine Flu: nan New Pandemic." 

P.S. We person truthful overmuch much successful shop for you. Stay tuned each week for caller editions of "Short Questions pinch Dana Perino" — and if there’s a mobility you want answers to aliases a proposal for nan personification I should question and reply next, time off a statement successful nan comments conception below. 

In a speech pinch Dana Perino of Fox News Channel, Dr. Marc Siegel, a aesculapian contributor, said nan traits needed for effective activity successful medicine see "empathy and compassion, kindness, and belief successful others. Resistance to nan politicization of science, arsenic well." (Fox News)

Q: When you were little, what did you want to beryllium erstwhile you grew up? Did you ever cognize you wanted to beryllium a expert — aliases what drew you to nan aesculapian field? 

MS: I wanted to beryllium a writer from early childhood. My first essay, which won a statewide title erstwhile I was 10 years old, was "The Diligence and Frugality of Benjamin Franklin."

I only decided to beryllium a expert a fewer years aft college. One of my champion friends near his investigation occupation to spell to med schoolhouse and I took his spot astatine Stonybrook Hospital, penning poesy and looking retired complete Long Island Sound while nan experiments to measurement nitrogen were ongoing. 

I utilized nan clip to return nan pre-med courses I needed and decided to harvester nan 2 careers. They activity good together, arsenic penning is insular and medicine is much "in nan world."

Q: What are your thoughts connected nan domiciled of exertion successful medicine today? What invention excites you nan most?

MS: I deliberation exertion is successful an extraordinarily expansive phase. 

I americium excited by some AI and neurolink. 

I americium beautiful judge we tin harness AI arsenic a aesculapian co-pilot, but americium concerned neurolink could get beyond our power ("Manchurian Candidate").

Q: What traits do you deliberation are basal for effective activity successful nan aesculapian field?

MS: Empathy and compassion, kindness, and belief successful others. 

Resistance to nan politicization of science, arsenic well. 

Q: You person a inheritance successful medicine, but besides successful beforehand of nan camera. How do you equilibrium these 2 worlds, and what skills from your aesculapian training do you find astir useful successful your TV work?

MS: The TV activity causes maine to investigation and publication a lot. Also, to question and reply different experts who support maine informed. 

Communication skills tin beryllium transferred betwixt both. Learning really to talk to my patients astir caller treatments, vaccines, prevention and much tin besides construe successful beforehand of nan camera. 

The quality is nan split-second timing you request connected TV, but you study that complete time, particularly pinch nan thief of awesome producers.

Q: After experiencing the coronavirus pandemic, really do you deliberation our nine is amended prepared now for early world crises? What cardinal lessons person we learned?

MS: We should person learned not to beryllium dogmatic and to germinate arsenic nan accusation evolves. 

I don't deliberation we person really learned that, unfortunately. 

"We besides still haven't learned a strategy of world practice and sharing of accusation … The pandemic should person taught america this." 

We learned that accelerated testing and an effective therapeutic and a elastic vaccine programme are crucial. 

Technology continues to beforehand successful position of vaccine subject and we will person more cosmopolitan vaccines soon. I proceed to interest astir nan risks of definite "gain of function" research.

We besides still haven't learned a strategy of world practice and sharing of information. Certainly nan pandemic should person taught america this. 

But nary pandemic pact successful nan world will flooded authorities and hoarding of some accusation and supplies. Poor countries suffer and richer countries are amended prepared. PEPFAR is simply a jewel that has made an tremendous effect successful nan worldwide scourge of HIV. We request much programs for illustration it. 

Q: Moving distant from medicine for a moment, what's nan astir memorable performance aliases philharmonic capacity you've ever attended?

MS: I for illustration opera. I retrieve erstwhile my friend Bill Bolcom's "View From nan Bridge" opened successful Chicago. 

I was invited to nan opening on pinch Arthur Miller, of course, and my friend Arnold Weinstein, who wrote nan lyrics, and E.L. Doctorow.  

Also loved erstwhile "Ragtime" opened arsenic a musical successful Toronto and my woman and I went location pinch Edgar Doctorow and his family.

Q: What is 1 point you wish you knew erstwhile you were younger? 

MS: That you really person to beryllium observant what you opportunity to group — and beryllium slow to trust. 

My wife, who is from Moscow, has been trying to thatch maine that for complete 25 years, but I americium still too slow to learn. On nan different hand, I proceed to beryllium inspired by group who are giving. 

"You really person to beryllium observant what you opportunity to group — and beryllium slow to trust." 

You gave me, Dana, 1 of nan top gifts, an preamble to President Bush 43. It was a precocious constituent of my life and still is. You did not person to do that.

Q: If you could hop connected a level correct now and spell anyplace successful nan world, wherever would you spell and why?

MS: I emotion bluish Scotland, though I was location precocious and deliberation nan span to nan Isle of Skye has partially ruined 1 of nan astir beautiful sights successful nan world. 

But nan Lochs northbound of Inverness are still spectacular. 

I deliberation Stuart Varney saved my life. Last clip I went, I asked him what his champion extremity for a driver was, and he said, "Watch retired for nan roundabouts." And he was right. Americans are expecting cars to travel from nan other guidance than they do.

Q: What do you emotion astir about moving for Fox News?

MS: We person nan champion camera people, producers and method unit anywhere. High professionals. 

I for illustration nan friendships I person made, including pinch you.

Q: For each of nan pursuing aesculapian statements, would you reply "fact" aliases "fiction"? 

"I’m comparatively healthy. I don’t request a superior attraction expert (PCP)." 

MS: You request to attraction connected prevention — and a superior attraction expert tin thief you support you successful tune pinch screening and healthier choices. 

"An pome a time keeps nan expert away."

MS: Apples are rather good for you, actually. 

They person a batch of fibre and are nutritious.

"Does gum really return 7 years to digest?" 

MS: No. That's a complete myth, though young children could perchance get gum caught successful nan intestines. But it's very unlikely.

"Eating carrots improves your eyesight." 

MS: Carrots do incorporate beta-carotene, which makes Vitamin A — which is bully for vision and accommodating to darkness. But it is besides recovered successful different nutrient specified arsenic milk, food and eggs. 

So it is partially true.

"Going retired successful the acold weather tin springiness you a cold." 

MS: It won't springiness you a cold, but it tin make you much susceptible to viruses that are around. 

There is 1 study successful which group who put their feet successful a bucket of crystal h2o sewage much colds. The chill doesn't origin a acold — but it does make you much susceptible to respiratory viruses that are around.

"Ingesting pickle juice tin relieve musculus cramps wrong minutes." 

MS: There is nary experimental evidence, but it is imaginable because it is precocious successful electrolytes and nan cramps tin travel from a nonaccomplishment of electrolytes (including potassium) during exercise. 

But eating a banana aliases drinking Gatorade is astir apt better. I don't deliberation nan acidity of pickle juice is good, arsenic it tin origin abdominal discomfort.

"The tegument is nan largest organ successful nan body." 

MS: True.

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