Dr. Amar Dhand is a Neurologist and Social Scientist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Currently, his work focuses on social networks and how they impact health outcomes. He is interested in creating a social network paradigm for clinical medicine. In this episode we: -How networks tangibly affect his patients -Ways in which networks impact how quickly people get treatment for medical emergencies like strokes -How a patient's network influences their ability to recover