The Grant Williams Podcast Ep. 114 - Dr. John Bosetti, MD. FULL EPISODE

**Grant Williams** (0:10)
Before we get going, here's the bit where I remind you that nothing we discuss should be considered as investment advice. This conversation is for informational and hopefully entertainment purposes only. So, while we hope you find it both informative and entertaining, please do your own research or speak to a financial advisor before putting a dime of your money into these crazy markets. And now, on with the show. Welcome, everybody, to a very special year-end edition of The Grant Williams Podcast. At the beginning of this year, to celebrate my 100th podcast in this particular series, I had a wonderful conversation with my friend, Lynne Bryan-Fipps, about the extraordinary work she does at Beachwood Equine Therapy in Rhode Island and down in Florida. The response I received to that conversation was absolutely incredible, and many of you were kind and gracious enough to make donations to help support Lynne's incredible work. I know that several of you actually went to see Lynne and worked with her and the horses because the e-mails I received brought tears to my eyes. They were just wonderful stories. So in closing out this year, I want to once again have a very different kind of conversation, again with someone who's doing extraordinary things to help change people's lives for the better. My guest today is Dr. John Bosetti, an ophthalmic eye surgeon who was introduced to me this summer by a dear friend of mine and my erstwhile golf partner Mark Bacaletti. When Mark told me about the work Dr. Bosetti was doing to help cure blindness in Africa, I was absolutely astonished about not only the incredibly selfless work he and his team do, but the incredible amount of difference that can be made in a part of the world when making a difference is so very important. So I invited Dr. Bosetti to join me on the podcast, to talk about that work, to talk about his journey and the things they're trying to do to cure blindness in tens of thousands of people in Sub-Saharan Africa, literally changing their world and their lives overnight. At the end of our conversation, you will find ways in which you can help John and his team continue their incredible work. And if you're in a position to do so, even a modest donation can have a profound effect. So without further ado, please enjoy my conversation with the remarkable Dr John Bosetti.
Well, John, welcome to the podcast. It is a great pleasure to meet you and have a chance to talk to you. Thanks for doing this.

**John Bosetti** (2:25)
Oh, it's a delight to be here, Grant. Thank you so much for inviting me. I'm excited to chat.

**Grant Williams** (2:29)
We were introduced by our mutual friend, Mark Nicoletti, and I would give a shout out to him, but he's a complete liability, and so I refuse to dignify him with any platform whatsoever. But Mark and I were chatting in the summer over dinner, and he told me about what you were doing, and it's truly an extraordinary thing, and the numbers which we'll get into in a little while are remarkable in the worst possible way. So before we get to what you're doing, let's talk a little bit about you and your background so people can go and get a sense of who you are and how you reached the point where you're at today.

**John Bosetti** (2:57)
I am an ophthalmologist, so a physician who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the eye. So a medical doctor, you go to medical school, like any other doctor who might specialize in cardiology or neurosurgery, and an ophthalmologist goes to medical school and then does specialty training, a residency is what we term it here in the US and most of the world, to then study diseases specifically of the eye and how to take care of those both medically and surgically. So I trained back in the 1980s and 90s here in California at the University of California and have been in private practice of ophthalmology in Napa, California, about an hour northeast of San Francisco for over 30 years. My wife is also an ophthalmologist and we've practiced together here for all those years. I also taught cataract surgery at my alma mater at the University of California, San Francisco. I was invited by the chairman there to come in and teach young ophthalmologists in their residency to do cataract surgery, which is actually my specialty for about 10 years, but otherwise practiced here very happily in Napa, California.

**Grant Williams** (4:08)
There are worse places to live and worse places to practice, I'm sure. It is a spectacular part of the world. So let's talk about how you got connected with the project that we're here to talk about. What was the kind of genesis of the whole thing?