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A young doctor fights to cure his own rare, deadly disease | Science | AAAS - 0 views

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Lottie Peppers on 30 Dec 16

After the third time he nearly died but before the fourth, David Fajgenbaum embraced a new motto: Think it, do it. "I got out of the hospital with this profound sense of, you need to make the most of every second," he says. A former college football player with close-cropped dark hair and a firm handshake, Fajgenbaum, 31, is the picture of youthful vigor now. But that belies a frightening reality. Tomorrow the symptoms with which he's all too familiar could return, sending him to the intensive care unit (ICU) with every organ failing.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">After the third time he nearly died but before the fourth, David Fajgenbaum embraced a new motto: Think it, do it. "I got out of the hospital with this profound sense of, you need to make the most of every second," he says. A former college football player with close-cropped dark hair and a firm handshake, Fajgenbaum, 31, is the picture of youthful vigor now. But that belies a frightening reality. Tomorrow the symptoms with which he's all too familiar could return, sending him to the intensive care unit (ICU) with every organ failing. </div>

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