Pushkin.

I recently called up my friend Safi Bacall.

I wanted to see if he could correctly guess the answer to a puzzle.

First of all, before we start, I just wanted to briefly establish your bona fides for this conversation.

You have a PhD from MIT, is that correct?

Stanford.

Stanford, Stanford.

And you went on to work on the development of a number of different uh of drugs so that's correct

i did sophie ran a drug company for a long time that worked on some of the hardest problems

in cancer treatment in preparation for our call i sent sophy the package insert for something called Rotatech.

As I'm sure you've noticed, when you get a prescription drug, there's a leaflet inside the box.

I'll fold it up tiny print. That's the package insert. It tells you in great detail

every benefit, every side effect, every clinical study associated with your medication.

The Food and Drug Administration and drug companies spend years working out the exact

wording of that leaflet.

I'm assuming you've never read this before.

Never read it before.

Just saw it 20 minutes ago, whenever you sent it.

Rototech is a vaccine to protect babies against a very nasty intestinal bug called rotavirus.

What Safi first noticed was how well it worked.

Where I go to right away, that's interesting, is the efficacy data, which is post-marketing, adverse events, description, drug interactions,

clinical studies, section 14. Yeah, that's amazing. You look at table 8 on age 10 or whatever.

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