The reality is that the patient is the biggest and the most underutilized resource in the

healthcare industry.

And it shouldn't be that way.

That's why I believe in working in collaboration with a doctor.

But one must be empowered to take charge.

We can't hand it over completely.

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Hey, you're on air with Ella and today I am joined by author, researcher, well-respected citizen scientist Emily Goldmere's. Hey, Emily, welcome to on-air with Ella. Hello, how are you?

Thank you for having me. Now, where are you today? I'm in Los Angeles. Emily, thank you so much

for joining us from L.A. today. Could you tell everybody who you are and what you do?

Well, I'm a research analyst and a citizen scientist. I am a former lawyer who used my research skills that I learned in both law school and practicing law and switch to science, an area that I love and I'm passionate about. And I want to share my passion

with other people. Tell me a little bit about that journey. Well, I learned quite some time ago,

long before the pandemic, that we have a real science literacy issue in this country. And it's a

problem. And I'm not quite sure what the source of it is, if they're not teaching it in a

salient way in the schools, and they're not getting people excited enough about it. But science

affects everybody. And there are many different types of sciences, but it's really important.

And this was illustrated and confirmed by the pandemic that people need to embrace science.

And as a citizen scientist, I'm trying to convince people of the

fascinating aspects of science and that they too should embrace science. You talk a lot about in

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