Alastair Wood
You have to explain to your kids that they don't have certain things growing up because their father is Scottish.
You have to be able to look yourself in the mirror and be true to your core values.
We've raised people's expectations to believe that drug prescription and administration is risk-free.
We've created an impression that life is risk-free, and it's not.
We were an incredibly optimistic generation - maybe because there were so many of us!
We try to teach them how to make a presentation so that it's valuable to people, so they deliver a message, not just information.
The case of Propulsid proves this: When people are falling off a cliff, you don't put up more signs; you put up a fence.
I thought my Beatles LPs sounded pretty good on a record player, but that was before I had heard a CD.
I think we need to think beyond the issue of absolute risk.
I see my job as being to facilitate the life of clinical researchers so that they can be more productive, and trying to keep the bureaucracy from getting in their way.
Even then, Vanderbilt was the premiere place for clinical pharmacology.
At a certain level you could say the world was flat, and people would agree with you.
A generation of arrogance. We didn't trust anyone over 30. We believed we could fix all the prejudices and irrationality of the past.