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My Lifestyle Medicine Story

My Lifestyle Medicine Story by a Computer Science Grad turned MD Grad I went to medical school in a remote part of Southern India (Manipal). I hoped to learn old-school clinical medicine just as my great grandfather learned when he fought in WWII. He kept diaries of his concoctions and day-to-day experiences as a physician in the army. No one else in my extended family had the opportunity to learn medicine and practice it in their lives. Before my medical degree, I was always curious about the programmatical automation that exists in computer science. It may have been the foundation of my curiosity for medicine. The ability to construct a piece of DNA, just as you would build a few lines of code. Then allowing it to take life, transcribed and translated and have a mind of its own. Sometimes even astonishing the creator of its capabilities.  That is a brief preamble of my Computer Science and Medical Science worlds, coming to the history of my fam...