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LOS ANGELES TIMES AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLER ā¢ The powerful memoir of a young doctor and former college athlete diagnosed with a rare disease who spearheaded the search for a cureāand became a champion for a new approach to medical research.
āA wonderful and moving chronicle of a doctorās relentlessā¦
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Imagine being a medical school student in the best of health and full of spirit and ambition, and suddenly being engulfed by a strange and mysterious illness that even the best of doctors in the most renowned hospitals are unable to appropriately diagnose, let alone treat. This chilling story of a doctor who literally chases his own cure is a great example of the much-needed patient advocacy that may often be required to diagnose and treat rare and complex conditions effectively. The authorās passion for finding the underlying cause of his disease (Castlemanās disease) and experimenting with innovative unlikely combinationsā¦
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