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Adam: Arthur?
Caller: Hey! What's up?
Adam: Hey! You're twenty-six. What's goin' on?
Caller: Plain shakes nothin'. I actually, I love you guys. I've listened to you since I started college, and now I'm finishing medical school up here in Chicago.
Adam: Great.
Caller: And I just had a question for Drew, actually.
Drew: Mmmm-hmmm.
Caller: I'm -- I mean, I've respected your show since I can remember listening to it. And I just wondered how you got into it and uh...
Drew: Oh, radio?
Caller: Into radio, and into interacting with people on such a large scale.
Drew: It all came through radio. And it's one accident after another.
Caller: All right.
Drew: Adam will testify to that effect. I was asked, when I was a third-year medical student, to help out on a local program that was sort of ill-conceived, didn't know what they kinda wanted. They actually originally asked me to do a segment called "Ask a Surgeon". They'd go, "Hey! Use big words. It will be hysterical." I thought, "What...?" I was not interested. I had to be sort of convinced that it was a good thing. Big, long story short: I finally went up and sorta observed what was going on and was sort of blown away by the opportunity that radio provides. And there was no one sorta just -- at that point -- there was no one just kinda answering questions. And that was pre-AIDS, pre- safe sex, pre- a lot of things, and I just thought it was important to give people information -- young people information -- that they needed. And I was a young person. I was your age! I was younger than you when I started. And just have another young person say, "Hey, there's this information; it's pretty easy to understand." And back then, things were called "venereal diseases", and condoms were behind the counter; you had to ask the pharmacist to bring 'em out for you.
Adam: Really?
Drew: Oh yeah.
Caller: Yeah, I just think it's awesome that uh... You know, I see all these patients in the past two years, and I see almost no one between the ages of, like, fourteen and twenty-five.
Drew: Yeah, they don't... That's the other thing. That was...
Caller: And you guys have, like, such an awesome forum just to talk to all of 'em.
Drew: Well that's -- thank you -- and that's one of the things that sorta got me. I felt the same way as you. And, there's sort of a resistance or a fear to come into physicians and my thing was like, "Hey, well I'm one too, I'm just a doctor, this is how we see things, don't be afraid to come in", A. And B, adolescence really is the launching pad that establishes the trajectories of life. And you can sorta adjust those trajectories a little bit in one direction or another: "poof!", it falls in the ocean, or it just heads up on a nice, even path. So, I'm sorta fascinated with that idea.
Caller: Right. Well, I don't know... I... I, um...
Drew: What are you gonna study? What are you going into?
Caller: I'm going into family practice.
Drew: That's good.
Caller: Yeah. So, I e-mail... I faxed you a letter to your office, just to see if I could buy you [unintelligible] for a while, but I don't know if you got it.
Drew: Well, I...
Adam: Drew wipes his ass with fan mail. Unless there's a check. You gotta put a check in there.
Caller: What's that?
Adam: If there's a check in there, he'll take a look at it.
Caller: I tried, but you couldn't fax that. I couldn't fax a check. I dunno. Doesn't have the address on the AMA site.
Adam: Hmmm. Well, Drew, did you get this letter?
Drew: No, I'll have to look into it. See what's going on.
Caller: Oh, 'cause I talked to your secretary. She said it was on your desk.
Drew: All right, well, I'll go look at my desk. Stack of other stuff on there.
Adam: It's on his desk.