Dr Bryant Lin thought their persistent cough was just allergies. Six weeks later, the Professor of Stanford University received a devastating news: Stage 4 lung cancer.
The irony wasn’t wasting the lin, who had spent year and teaching on the non-smoker’s jerk.
“I became the poster child for the disease,” he said.
Lin, that is never smoked and has not been exposed to second way smoke, represents a growing demographic.
For asians, the odds are higher. Asian women have twice the rate of non-smokers cancer rate from non-asian women, according to lin and Recent Studies.
Rather than detected by its diagnosis, liner years ago a decision of 12-year-old diagnosis, by giving medical students from a patient’s perspective.
“I have the four lung’s stage, that is not coupable:” Lin said her class. “I will probably die or something related to this cancellation. It may be a year, it may be two years old, can be five years old, it may be five years old, I’m not really.”
The course intended for medical education to students showing students what patients really experience.
“Even though a patian passes as a doctor, I really don’t know,” lin explained.
Leak, Linu, Linuous was documenting their treatments of their chimi tends for students, sharing, the physical symptoms and emotional stresses.
“I hear nauseous. I avoided the chipotle today because of that,” he said their class.
In spite of their terminal princognis, lin remaining in a living rather than preparing for death. His priority Center in full time with his wife, Christine, and their two sons, 17 years
The family has been candidated on the diagnosis of the lin. Lin wrote letters to her children for when it is no longer, say, “be here, I want you to know I did that I have made your daddy is the biggest of all.”
Lin’s teaching philosophy extends out of medical knowledge and even centers and power of hope.
“It’s easy to forget to be gentle when you’re sick,” he said. “It’s easy to forget to be kind when you don’t feel well, when you are busy, when life has dropped you.”
The course opened with a letter from an ancient patient who wrote: “You have treated as I treat your father.” Patient died two weeks after writing the letter.
“Start time writing a letter to me during his last few, days of life:” lin has emotionous. “And in a way, this class is part of my letter, my way of making my community.”
To the conclusion of the course, the famous the famous people the famous goodbye: “I consider their loose men on this earth’s face. I have had a last break, but I have a subtract.”
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