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Well, hello, we're here today with Carol Roberts, MD of Tampa Bay.
Carol Roberts, thank you very much for being with us today.
I'm really excited about just spending time
and talking with you about your background.
You've got a really neat background.
You've done a lot of stuff.
Tell us and share some of those things with us.
Well, Bob, I started out as a math major in Harvard University, for my first year.
Then I realized that I couldn't make a living as a mathematics teacher,
or that I wasn't smart enough to be a mathematician.
So I decided to go into medicine.
And once I did, I became obsessed.
It just became the most important, the single most important thing I could do.
So, I graduated medical school, University of Texas, San Antonio,
and then I went on to do a surgical residency in New York, at Albert Einstein.
And I practiced ENT, medicine and surgery, in Tampa, for about ten years,
before I decided it was time to move on.
I was frustrated with not being able to cure people with my knife,
and realized that there was a lot more going on,
that I wasn't able to assist in, like allergies, or the brain.
They were problems, so I went to ER medicine, Emergency Medicine,
for a long time, till I could figure out what I wanted to do when I grew up.
And what I came up with was to really teach people
how to take care of themselves, which no one was doing.
My profession, a doctor's not a rule-pusher, they have protocols,
they have standard of care, and they have to go along with it.
Then I decided to broaden my view, include nutrition, exercise, meditation,
what people can actually do for themselves.
So, I spent the last twenty years in what I call
a holistic mental practice, that I invented.
And, lo and behold, I've found that there are others who are doing very similar,
and we are re-creating medicine the way that we wanted to do it in the first place.
Well, Carol, that is very exciting, and what a great story!
Thank you so much for sharing that with us today.
Thank you.