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How progressive illness forces premature career death

My Parkinson's tremors started affecting my handwriting last month and I'm a surgeon, so I'm facing the end of everything I trained twenty years for.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Professional identity and personal calling collide with physical limitation, demanding a reckoning with life's central purpose.

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