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A Most Delicate Balance
Advance for Physician Assistants, 07/21/09

Gibbons M – Parsley, 50, was diagnosed in 1988 with a rare condition for men: rheumatoid arthritis. Rarer still, it eventually resulted in bronchiolitis obliterans. He waited 2 1/2 anxious years for donor lungs. Then, two years after his lung transplant, he needed a kidney transplant. Today, five years after getting two new lungs and three years after getting his brother's kidney, Parsley has this to say: "My life is back to pretty much normal. The sinus infections are over. I'm not anemic. I have no problems of any kind. It's a miracle." Given lung recipients' relatively poor survival rates – only half of them live five years – we ask: What is Michael Parsley doing right?