Not on My Watch

First person profile: Dr. Thomas Smith

“…“He's an enormously busy man, but he always allows me to present my ideas and then waits patiently without interrupting before offering his decades of wisdom—which is very critical for a mentor,” Dr. Gupta says. “You grow that way versus just being spoon fed something.” Dr. Gupta says that in addition to giving him multiple research opportunities, Dr. Smith has encouraged him in a variety of other ways, from helping him to write his first protocol to encouraging him to reflect on his experience as a first‐year oncology fellow in JAMA Oncology …”