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David Reuben

David Reuben

American author and psychiatrist

Sep 13, 2026

8:43
Very nice.
8:43
And they're just lovely.
8:45
Um, but his-- after he died, his wife and I got to-- You know, she became my patient, and, uh, and we became close, and about fifteen, twenty years, and you could tell that she was getting near the end.
9:01
And her daughter still lives in England, and we're communicating back and forth, and, and, kind of everybody knew what was unspoken, that she was getting into her last chapters of her life.
9:12
And, uh, her daughter invited me to the service and said, "There are only gonna be a few people there." And immediately, I felt honored, but I also realized that there was a reason.
9:25
It's because when you're ninety-seven or so is what around her age, there aren't many people.

7 MINS LATER

16:41
Yes, I wanna hear it.
16:43
Uh, and when I was a kid, I wrote some lyrics and stuff like that.
2:18
And I don't actually know much about the start of this program, so I thought it would be a great chance for you to tell me more
2:25
about that.
2:26
So it's a story.
2:28
I was finishing up some national responsibilities with the American Board of Internal Medicine, and when I finished, my email dropped in half.
2:39
So I said, geez, I want to do something for UCLA, because they were so supportive of me doing all this national work.
2:48
And one of my partner's patients had dementia, and both the husband and wife were his patients, and they were very wealthy.
3:00
They were very wealthy.

13 MINS LATER

16:15
Yeah.

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