He’s been public that he’s ten months clear now. Some prefer to accept undesirable circumstances. Others prefer to oppose them. He’s one of the latter. A little paraphrase of Dylan Thomas’ work here is something I’m fond of:
Do not go gentle into that good night
Rage, rage against the dying of the light
And if he’s successful, which hopefully now he has a much better chance of, there are all these new medical results out that are useful.
As an example, a close friend is using one of the personalized medicine companies that sytse’s “CEO of care” has invested in to diagnose a persistent debilitating condition with no specific cause.
Or to quote someone else: All progress depends on the unreasonable man.
That’s so cool.