DRAFT
a conservative
grant.
statement.
But
it was either
that or
I was unaware of the power of my position,
thought I knew it.
won't expose everything until
BERGE:
the
and he probably
I was too innocent of politics to realize that
I had pushed him to the wall on this thing.
be 95 before
loose
ft was funny.
I write my biography.
But
I
I want to
I write it.
I'm just about
finished.
You mentioned something about
doing radiation therapy work in UCSF specifically on the effects
on blood count.
KOHN:
Yes
BERGE:
Did you work with,
with that?
well what kind of work did you do
And did you have any collaboration for some of the
hematologists at UCSF?
KOHN:
No.
I was no great shakes,
paper was published in 1955,
but, where is that?
but it changes the human lipocite
count during X-ray therapy for cancer ???.
when I came in doing some clinical work,
Well I had noticed
I noticed the literature
on the changes in the blood count was very small,
and so I did these,
I had an assistant,
amazingly so,
a technician who would
withdraw blood from the patients following being treated,
these blood counts and then I published this paper.
was interesting results,
That
but what I meant was,
I still am not quite sure what it means,
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and did
I thought it
it's a funny thing,
but anyhow,
it makes you