I’m what you might call the designated “details person” in my family. So when my parents, both lifelong Dallas residents,...

Introduction: Fighting the Wrong War For the first two years after my diagnosis, I was losing a war I didn’t...

The Day I Realized I Was Fighting the Wrong Fire As a healthcare practitioner, I thought I understood asthma. I...

Introduction: The Patient I Couldn't Help and the Question That Haunted Me In medicine, you learn to live with the...

Introduction: The Unraveling Thread The fluorescent lights of the conference room hummed, a monotonous counterpoint to the frantic beat of...

Introduction: The Day the Numbers Broke Me There is a distinct memory of standing before a community health forum, a...

Introduction: The Case of the Flickering Lights For the first decade of my career, I felt like a failure. I...

For years, my body felt like a war zone. It was a relentless, two-front battle fought on terrain no one...

Introduction: The Declaration of War The words arrived not with a bang, but with a quiet, clinical finality that seemed...

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