Drew Remignanti, MD, MPH, writes from the dual perspective of a 40 year career emergency physician and of a 50 year career chronic autoimmune disease patient. He considers himself well educated by Dartmouth College, Rutgers Medical School, the Medical College of Wisconsin, as well as 15 hospitalizations, seven abdominal surgeries, and a major disabling stroke in 1982 at age 38. He is the author of The Healing Connection: A Partnership for Your Health.