A physician-surgeon left his practice to join the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, driven by watching public trust in healthcare collapse during COVID-19. He wanted to rebuild what he saw crumble.
How do you restore trust in the American people? Gary, I really appreciate you asking that question because that is one of the things that motivated me to want to work at the Department of Health and Human Services. Because as we saw during the COVID pandemic, there was a loss of trust in our higher institutions in healthcare. And it was really important to me to say, okay, I'm a physician, I'm a surgeon. It's been an amazing career for me. It's been such a blessing. Like I said, it's all I ever wanted to do was be a doctor. And so when I saw this loss of trust, it was really hurtful. And I said, I want to be able to try to help restore trust. In our higher institutions of healthcare and healthcare policy in this country.
