Before Robert Wachter sparked the hospital medicine movement by coining the word "hospitalist" in 1996, he was the answer to a trivia question: "Who was the school mascot for the last Ivy League team to go to the Final Four?"

In the first episode of Before The White Coat, Bob Wachter talks about his career progression -- from his first job as a golf caddy to medical school at the University of Pennsylvania, residency at UCSF and the very moment he recognized hospital medicine as a specialty and said "This is it. This is the model."