"The world's calling. You'd best go see what they want."

Those words from his grandmother, launched Dr. Jeffrey Wiese's career from a "dirt farm" in Kansas as an academic all-American football player in high school to Johns Hopkins and, today, to professor of medicine at the Tulane University Health Sciences Center.

In this episode of Before The White Coat, Dr. Wiese explores the many influences in his early life, including his grandmother, his basketball coach father and mentors throughout his path in medical education.