Opinion: I’m a neurologist. I’ve delivered ALS diagnoses. Then I received one myself

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I have delivered ALS diagnoses. I know the exact weight of those words, the way the room changes when a person hears them, and the composure and presence a physician is trained to maintain. I spent nearly a decade in medical training learning how to sit across from someone and explain, gently but honestly, what their future might look like with a progressive, fatal disease that today has no cure.

Then I found myself where I never expected to be: on the other side of that conversation.

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