If there was one person in the United States all the doctors would know, it’d be Dr. Henry Friedman, a neuro-oncologist. Dr. Friedman is world famous—and I got to interview him.

During the interview, he told me that he normally does not do things like this. But the reason he did was because seventeen years ago he got a call from man telling him his daughter had a brain tumor. That man was my father.  Dr. Friedman helped my dad through the whole thing.  He could call my dad on the plane or at one in the morning.  And my dad would call him for everything regarding my sister’s tumor and treatment.

Neuropathologists are not like other doctors, you never meet them in person.  In fact, in the whole time your child is going through treatments, you’ll probably never even hear about them.

On June 27, I interviewed Dr. John Crary, a neuropathologist at Columbia University.  Dr. Crary spends 80% of his time researching neurodegenerative diseases and the other 20% looking at brain biopsies.  Every week he attends a tumor board consisting of neurosurgeons, neuroradiologists, neurologists, neuro-oncologists, and neuropathologists.