Dr. Ayan Panja is resident doctor for BBC World News. In this TEDx talk, he shares his passion for generalism, which is something that is progressively less valued in the modern world. He argues that the need for generalists is still strong and looks at the ways in which generalists do things differently to specialists (not just in medicine).
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