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Dr Aseem Malhotra: the most influential doctor on X, and the pug who changed him.
Dr Aseem Malhotra, ranked the world's most influential doctor on X in July 2026, was bitten by a dog as a boy, and for years afterwards he kept animals firmly at a distance. Then a beige pug called Tiny moved into his life, and the cardiologist never recovered. What followed is the reason a heart doctor belongs on a show about cats. Malhotra came to believe, and now tells his patients, that touch is medicine. He prescribes hugging: four times a day, twenty seconds each, doctor's orders.
He will tell you that the unconditional love of an animal, the simple act of petting a cat, can measurably…
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