Introduction with Christian Franz

A FaceTime call just with others watching and listening. Back on February 24, 2021, I began "Friends of Franz" (thank you to my friend, Christina, for helping me brainstorm titles) as an Instagram live stream series with the hopes of both tackling misinformation spreading around the internet about COVID-19 and the vaccines as well as to encourage health students and professionals like myself in their academic and career journeys. And so I thought, why don't we give the actual educated and trained experts of the field a platform to tackle these misinformations while also relaying the journeys it took them to reach that point of validity. After ten months of live-streaming, 26 different expert clinicians have wonderfully shared their stories of hard work, persistence, failures, successes, hopes, fears, and just normal lives behind their au ...