Dr. Richard Firshein was diagnosed with asthma as a child. As very few asthma treatments existed at the time, his asthma symptoms were managed by, as he says, “staying indoors, taking the few medications available and suffering.” By his late 20s, he had finished medical school. He was teaching and directing a residency program. Then one morning, he awoke completely unable to breathe. The diagnosis he received while in intensive care was grim. Although doctors were unsure if he would make it, he knew he had the tools to survive. Once released from the hospital, Dr. Firshein spent a year weaning himself off eight different asthma medications and creating a program that would not only ultimately cure him of asthma, but help heal his asthma patients and asthmatic children in a local Bronx school.

Excerpt from Dr. Firshein’s story:

When was the last time you used your inhaler?

It has been a number of years, at least five to seven years.

How is the rate of asthma changing in the U.S.?

In 1980, there were seven to 12 million asthmatics. In 2006, there were at least 36 million asthmatics. The rate has tripled. We are dealing with an epidemic that is not controlled. Sometimes our knowledge and use of the medications we have are giving people the chance to function normally, but it would be great to take it to the next level and get people to really understand how their bodies are working and the importance of all of these techniques I talked about so we could get these numbers to reverse, to go backwards.

Anything else you would like to add?

Every condition is a warning and an opportunity. If you can treat asthma as an opportunity, then in every other aspect of your life, you will become healthier. That goes not only for asthma but any medical condition. To understand there is an opportunity within a condition to heal and to grow will not only heal the problem, but will heal the person as well.

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