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“She was the first person I saw as a patient,” said Sander Markx, MD, who was a medical student in 2000 when he first encountered April. “She is, to this day, the sickest patient I’ve ever seen.”

The concept of losing face or bringing shame to family and community, a fear that’s universal across many Asian cultures, can heavily affect Asian Americans’ decision to get help, said Warren Ng, MD.

The writer Andrew Solomon's own approach to writing about his depression, in The Noonday Demon, was influenced by Jamison’s.