Meet Dr. Hari Deshpande

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• 00:00My name is Harry Deshpande.
• 00:04I'm in, I'm a medical oncologist
• 00:07at the Yale Cancer Center.
• 00:09The patients that I see here are patients
• 00:12with sarcomas and thyroid cancer,
• 00:14and I also see patients who have
• 00:17cancers of unknown primary.
• 00:19When I left medical school,
• 00:21I actually wanted to do something
• 00:24called infectious disease.
• 00:25But then I realized after my first rotation
• 00:29in oncology that I loved the subject.
• 00:32I really enjoyed working with the patience.
• 00:35With the staff, the nurses,
• 00:37the researchers,
• 00:38the attending physicians,
• 00:40and I knew then that I wanted to do
• 00:43on koleji many of my patients are
• 00:46very scared they haven't heard of
• 00:49sarcomas or even thyroid cancers,
• 00:52and so they don't know what to expect,
• 00:55and this is probably the main part of
• 00:59my job and the team that I work with.
• 01:03I have an excellent set of practice nurses.
• 01:07And treatment nurses who I work
• 01:09with and they spend a lot of time
• 01:12with the patients guiding them
• 01:14through their treatments,
• 01:16which can be very complex.
• 01:18I mainly do what's called clinical research,
• 01:21though that doesn't involve going into a lab.
• 01:25It doesn't involve test tubes or
• 01:27anything like that,
• 01:28but what I do do is.
• 01:32Often try to see if new
• 01:35medicines that are either.
• 01:37Given to us by pharmaceutical
• 01:40companies or through the National
• 01:42Cancer Institute are useful
• 01:44against various conditions.
• 01:46In my case it would be sarcomas
• 01:49or thyroid cancers.