Watch: What patients and their families learned from facing a deadly disease
“Breakthough isn’t something that happens to you," moderator Casey Ross of STAT said in introducing the panel. "It’s something that in many cases you make happen.”
Dr. David Fajgenbaum went from being a healthy third-year medical student to suddenly suffering multi-organ-system failure. “I was so sick that my doctors encouraged my family to say goodbye and a priest came in in November. “That I’ve considered to be the start of my overtime.”
