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Nov 2023
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Emergency Medicine Dr. J Mack Slaughter, joins to the Glaucomfleckens to talk about his life before he got into medicine, touring the nation as a singer in a boy band (Sons of Harmony) and getting the opportunity to open for Destiny’s Child. He then goes into how he found medicine, how chasing prestige can be detrimental for your mental health, and the time he treated a patient who cut off his own penis! Lastly, Dr. J Mack talks about his program Music Meets Medicine and how his lives in entertainment and medicine were able to be combined.

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