A lesson that could change your life, too, maybe even save it Photo by National Cancer Institute on Unsplash We mark our lives by dates. Births and birthdays, weddings, deaths. Certain moments are riveted into memory whether we want them or not. Mine is May 14, 2024, 1:40 p.m. on a bright spring afternoon, the kind of day we upper Midwesterners savor after a brutal Minnesota winter. I was driving to a routine dental appointment. The planets seemed aligned, the leaves a bright

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Some people speculate that famous people don't get the same medical treatment as you and I do.

On a blistering Sunday morning following an 8-mile training run, I was sweaty, winding down, and heading for home when a car slowly came...