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Brush with Disease

 In one of the episodes of Golden Girls, Dorothy Zobornak confronts her previous doctor for not taking her seriously and misdiagnosing her chronic fatigue syndrome as just being a woman and being extremel apathic. She cries out to him that may be if he had brush with a disease in the beginning of his career he would treat his patients with care and respect that the deserve. That hit home.                                         I read the book "When Breath Becomes Air" which is a story of a hardworking doctor who at the peak of his career as neurosurgeon found out he has cancer and he died while his peak had just started. That book changed my prespective of life and my career decision. I also had a medical school fellow who was really smart and would have been a great doctor and his life ended abruptly because of a brain tumor. Even these experiences did not alter me as much as finding out one of my parental figures had been diagnosed with parkinsonism and since it was a prog