How Homesteading Has Made Me a Better Doctor

To be good at your craft, you have to have a broad based life experience. And one of the best things we all have access to is the environment. We can all learn from animals, we can all learn from birds. Just walking my property, seeing how the water comes down, like we were actually with my kids, mushroom foraging the other day and just to see what mushrooms grow where, based on the time of the year, based on humidity, outside, all of a sudden, becoming aware of your environment actually can make you better at what you do. Everything translates. All information is translational. And that's one of the things I've learned. There is no useless knowledge. There is no book or learning thing that you learn that doesn't apply. And part of being a human, part of being a clinical scientist, which is what I am, is trying to figure out how the things I'm learning can actually apply.