Join us to listen to Dr. David Fajgenbaum discuss his battle with Castleman's Disease, a deadly auto-immune condition which causes multiple organ failure. During medical school, Dr. Fajgenbuam suddenly became deathly ill. What followed was a multi-year ordeal of chasing a diagnosis and eventually, finding a treatment that can keep the disease at bay.
David wrote about his extraordinary experience in a memoir that shares many life lessons and key insights on how to reform our biomedical system to more rapidly search for cures for those who need them most--rare disease patients. As we continually explore on this podcast, "rare is not rare"--all of us suffer from one rare condition or another--thus these lessons are key for everyone. There is no Santa Claus. It is up to us collectively as patients, doctors, and family members, to find faster solutions and cures.