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Values Instilled at Yale School of Medicine Spur Head and Neck Surgeon Urjeet Patel, MD ’97, Into Leadership Roles
The son of two doctors, Urjeet Patel, MD ’97, learned about the importance of medicine and gained an easy familiarity with the field at a young age. “It’s what we talked about over the dinner table,” says Patel. That exposure, along with Patel’s abilities in math and science, led him to set his sights on a medical career.