After two years as host of the “First Opinion Podcast” and many more as the founding editor of STAT’s expansive, authoritative First Opinion platform, Pat Skerrett put down his editing pen and microphone to start a new chapter — retirement.
Pat bade us farewell with a favorite quote from Maurice Sendak’s “Where the Wild Things Are”: “Let the Wild Rumpus start!” But before he left, he sat down with Torie Bosch, who has just joined STAT as our new First Opinion editor. They talked about their hopes for the section and discussed editorial pet peeves as well as the vampire bats of Costa Rica.
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