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

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