Swing Dance for Life!

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Two years ago I started swing dancing because of my work. I’m an internal medicine primary care physician in Chinatown. What?! What does swing dancing have to do with that? Well, our hospital happened to have a Dancing With the Stars-themed holiday party for fun, and I got volunteered to be one of the contestants.  I had no idea what I was getting into.  Learned two routines in six weeks – phew!  But I was hooked.  After the party was over, I continued taking lindy hop classes and going out dancing, two, three, four…or more…times a week.  I feel more fit than I have in years, and I’m totally having fun doing it!  Plus, I’ve met some great friends.

I’m joining Team San Francisco this year to help raise money for cancer research, hoping to use my hobby to benefit others more broadly.  For people like my grandmother, who was in excellent health until she died of colon cancer.  For all my patients who have fought against cancer.  The father of two, who happily told me he had quit smoking, but was diagnosed with lung cancer barely two months later, and lost his battle in less than a year.  A young woman with a newborn baby, who had one older sister die of breast cancer, another sister diagnosed with breast cancer, and subsequently tested positive for a genetic mutation which gives her overwhelmingly high odds of developing breast cancer as well.  The woman who, after two months of back pain, learned that she had metastatic breast cancer – after five years, she is still a fighter and living a full and active life.  For them and the so many others.

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