Not only does he have amazing experience with the full knowledge of how a newsroom runs - but he's amazingly modern and forward-looking, there's no agenda, other than to make this the best journalistic institution. We're lucky to be able to capture him.

Patrick Soon-Shiong

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It's unconscionable that cancer patients get the wrong diagnosis 30 percent of the time and that it takes so long to treat them with appropriate drugs for their cancer.

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cancer drug long

I have an obligation to use what I know to try to bring real, usable medical science to every doctor and bedside and patient.

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doctors real trying

I'm a physician. I've been blessed with ideas and resources to use technology to make the world a better place. That's what I would like to leave behind.

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technology blessed ideas

The pancreas is by far the most complex organ in the body.

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organs pancreas body

I want to do transformational work to actually fix the world.

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want world

I love doing a lot of things I'm told I can't do. I think that's what drives me and keeps me awake every day.

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awake i-can thinking

Every patient is a consumer, and every consumer is a potential patient. What NantWorks is doing is building the world the way Da Vinci saw it, and augmenting every frame a human being sees as they work, live and play.

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saws play way

We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.

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epidemics cancer thinking

The foundations and the intent of the Affordable Care Act are laudable. The way it's being implemented is a disaster.

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foundation care way

You don't inherit cancer; you actually get it.

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cancer

We need to and must protect privacy. But I think that people will be willing and even eager to share medical information about themselves for the greater good of mankind.

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people needs thinking

Baseball is like cricket, and I grew up in a country where they had cricket. So I understand cricket, soccer and basketball. I played basketball at the club level and a little bit in college, so thats why Im a basketball fanatic.

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I think of L.A. as truly the melting pot. It’s basically a mini country unto itself.

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melting country thinking

I'm truly passionate about basketball. I'm not as passionate about baseball as I am about basketball, but I watch baseball and I watch football. I love sports in general.

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basketball football sports

I was working with stem cells as part of a NASA programme. We realised that the science of stem-cell proliferation was also fundamental to cancer cells when cancer enters the phase of metastasis.

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phases cancer cells

I like to look for patterns, in science and life. It’s what I do.

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patterns looks

If you look upon chronic diseases as an epidemic, and you see that the chronically ill are the poor, then you see that this issue of the uninsured is not really a moral but a financial obligation to change health care.

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epidemics issues care

Cancer is really a slew of rare diseases. Lung cancer has 700 sub-types, breast cancer has 30,000 mutations which means that every cancer in its own right is a rare disease. Sharing data globally in this context is really important from a life-threatening perspective.

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cancer data mean

Everybody is focusing on one little piece of the puzzle, but the tumor is too smart. It has too many fail safes. We need to attack the entire tumor system.

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business

Our partnership with BlackBerry has really been able to create a scalable super-computer in the palm of the hands of the doctor.

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