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Alex Jahangir

Orthopaedic trauma surgeon at Vanderbilt University Medical Center who chaired Nashville's COVID-19 Task Force and serves on the HealthStream board.

Oct 5, 2026

40:17
well, you know, this and that and blah, blah.
40:20
It was going horrible.
40:22
And I think for me what's really important personally and then also as I entered a public eye and I think as a business owner you probably feel this way, is people aren't dumb.
40:32
People know when they're being spun.
40:33
And so I pushed my colleague out of the way and I went up in front of the mic and I said, I don't know.
40:38
I don't know, the question they were asking, I don't have the answer.
40:42
And you could immediately feel the tension in the room come down.
44:16
And I'm sure about a year into the COVID pandemic, it became second nature for you to start taking some of this fire, start being able to answer with rebuttals, and really ease into conversations a little bit better using what you all have learned through medicine and what you've experienced within the hospital, and then being able to articulate that to the public.

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