Charles Garfield
Shanti and UCSF School of Medicine
Oakland, CA USA
"People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care."
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Charles's work combines: Medicine, Science, and Helping People
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Day In The Life
Skills &
Education
Here's the path I took:
High School
Bachelor's Degree
Mathematics, General
Adelphi University
Doctorate
Clinical Psychology
University of California-Berkeley
Life & Career Milestones
My path in life has been direct
1.
When he was young, Russia launched Sputnik 1, America pushed kids into science and technology fields in response.
2.
Was working on the moon landing project-"a ticket to a career"-and decided he didn't want it.
3.
Didn't care as much about the project as he cared about the people that were working on it.
4.
Once it was clear that he loved studying people, he did everything he could to pursue it more, learn more.
5.
Says too many people follow "formulas" that pretend to be correct; doesn't think it's that crazy that he went from science to psychology.
6.
Joined the staff at the University of California, San Francisco's cancer institute.
7.
Most proud of the first thing he did: walked up and down a floor of dying patients and realized they were lonely and scared.
8.
Founded Shanti project, which had volunteers work with seriously ill and dying patients, the first of its kind.
