Any medical doctor/medical student here who is into code/data science?

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I am curious about whether you could tell the story of how you got into these fields while in med school and the possibilities of merging coding/software and medicine. I am currently a first year student and also learning python out of curiosity.

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I went about it the opposite way. I started out in the IT field, then I got into mental health about ten years into my career. Now I'm back in college and doing both. There is a huge untapped overlap between mental health and good data science. I'm currently mining about 10 years of social media posts to uncover some community dynamics within a therapist community.

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