David Fajgenbaum
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1,017 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Sep 2025
last heard 26 Nov
David Fajgenbaum’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And this idea that the medicine was there, but we humans hadn't done the work to match it together.
It's just what drives us.
We've got so many solutions out there and we got to help patients with them.
Yeah.
I mean, there are many cases where we aren't able to find a repurposed drug for a patient and they do pass away from their disease.
And it's just so heartbreaking.
When you have a personal mission like the two of us have, where that's all we can think about and it's what drives us.
And certainly when I've gone through similar experiences and to be on this other side,
it's heartbreaking when you're not able to find the solution.
It's also really motivating.
It just pushes us to work harder and harder.
And then there's patients like Joseph and others that we've been able to help and save that motivates us even further.
It's the setbacks, the cases where we're not able to help patients, and then also the patients where we are able to help patients.
It's really created a circuit.
And anytime I'm struggling to
you know, with the challenges of this nonprofit, of every cure and the work that we do in research, I just think about what these patients are going through, which just, you know, what we're doing pales in comparison to the suffering that they're going through.
And just, we're just trying to stay as motivated as we can to find solutions.
What about you?
How do you get through these challenges and these setbacks?
And almost what you're saying is almost like sitting with the pain sometimes.
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