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>> Nizar Jarjour: I do realize that most patients come here with concerns
that have not been totally addressed previously and they're looking for answers,
and I see my job as trying to understand what are their concerns?
How can I help them best?
Being a lung physician and a researcher at the same time afford me a unique advantage
of being able to understand the disease and explain
that to my patient so they can better manage it.
In addition it is very rewarding to be able to share with some
of my patient cutting edge knowledge from our research front
about their condition such as severe asthma.
I also enjoy taking my patients problems or concerns, what are they dealing with and things
that we don't yet have answers for and taking those problems back to the laboratory,
back to our research network, working with partners across the nation and sometimes
across the globe to try to understand these conditions.
To try to design studies where we can better learn about the disease
and what might be a better therapy for these conditions.
A large portion of what our patient with lung disease deal with is not only the symptoms
but understanding where they come.
Learning how they can control it.
Learning how they can actually better manage their conditions and being able
to explain things to them, provide them with an action plan.
Sometimes even written instructions.
They can take it home and feel somewhat in control where the disease might not be curable,
but at least for them to understand that they can actually manage their symptoms
and have control over their conditions is very rewarding.