Conversation with Sir Michael Marmot
Conversation with Sir Michael Marmot, p. 2 of 4
What does an epidemiologist do?
Lots of things. But essentially, the thing that distinguishes epidemiology is the study of disease in populations. So to contrast what I did as a clinician, in clinical medicine, [with] what I do in epidemiology, clinicians are trained to treat individual patients, that's what they do first, last, and always, they treat individual patients. What I was doing in my own primitive way in Sydney, asking, "Why are these kids getting asthma again and again? Why are they coming back? What is it in the environment in which they live that's causing these kids to come back and back with asthma?" was thinking like an epidemiologist, was thinking about causes that are out there in the population. So what epidemiologists do is study disease in populations, and they study the causes of disease in populations.
What does an epidemiologist do?
Lots of things. But essentially, the thing that distinguishes epidemiology is the study of disease in populations. So to contrast what I did as a clinician, in clinical medicine, [with] what I do in epidemiology, clinicians are trained to treat individual patients, that's what they do first, last, and always, they treat individual patients. What I was doing in my own primitive way in Sydney, asking, "Why are these kids getting asthma again and again? Why are they coming back? What is it in the environment in which they live that's causing these kids to come back and back with asthma?" was thinking like an epidemiologist, was thinking about causes that are out there in the population. So what epidemiologists do is study disease in populations, and they study the causes of disease in populations.
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