Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
01:26:16 · Rob Wachen, Patrick O'Shaughnessy
[01:26:16] S3: During my cancer treatment, there was a big decision I had to make. The doctors came to me and said, it's time for you to decide. Do you want to get surgery or do you want to get radiation? Here's the trade off. If you get surgery, you're more likely to live, but you have to assume you'll never be able to walk again. If you get radiation, you'll be able to walk again, but it's not the same probability that you'll live. You may die. What do you want to do? And I was 16, and my parents said, you have to make this decision for yourself. I thought a lot about it for a long time and decided I'm gonna do the surgery. I get the surgery. One of the things you do when you get a tumor resection is they do something called a necrosis analysis, where they look at all the different cells and say, is a cell dead or alive? Because if you have a bunch of cancer cells that are alive, you have a problem. And they looked at it and they said, you know, you usually want 98, 99% necrosis for us to say you're in the clear. You're below that. You should go get radiation. And there was only a few machines in the world that actually could do the type of radiation I needed. One of them was in Boston. I was in a wheelchair, and I needed to move to Boston for multiple months. And both of my parents decided to move out and drop everything they were doing and and live with me, and I'm eternally grateful. [01:27:26] S0: Beautiful. Thanks, guys.
01:27:27 · S4
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