General Discussion

using experimental drugs such as Prednisone and Cyclosporine to treat my eye disease called Uveitis, floors below me was the team of Epidemiologists and Virologists working together to find the source of the AIDS virus. Dr. Anthony Fauci was part of that team. To think I was in that same building with such a great man is beyond me.

That year, I also met the then US Surgeon General outside the Cape Cod home on the N.I.H. grounds working in the garden while on a jog, Dr. C. Everett Coop. We talked for a few moments and he asked me where I was from. I mentioned to him about the Eye Study and that I was a patient at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester where I was living. He smiled and said he had many friends practicing there. I saw him the next day while out on a jog and we exchanged waves and hellos.