# Robert Gupta: Between music and medicine

When Robert Gupta was caught between a career as a doctor and as a violinist, he realized his place was in the middle, with a bow in his hand and a sense of social justice in his heart. He tells a moving story of society’s marginalized and the power of music therapy, which can succeed where conventional medicine fails.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2012
- Runtime: 16 min
- By: TED.com
- Genres: Education, Music
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/RobertGupta_2012P)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-ND 3.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/RobertGupta_2012P?play=1)