AMA President-Elect Confronts a New Challenge: A Brain Tumor
When he began to discover a number of aspects of himself that were "off," Bobby Mukkamala, MD, president-elect of the American Medical Association (AMA), chalked it as much as aging.
"I 'd be speaking to clients in the test space, or simply having a table talk, and after that having that minute of possibly 15-to-20 seconds of simply looking for the best words, getting lost in what I was attempting to state," stated Mukkamala, 53. "I truly believed that this was a senior minute? Or I'm showering, and I close my eyes in the shower, and you lose that balance for simply a number of seconds, and I simply believed, 'That's simply typical. That's simply me aging. I ought to begin doing some balance workouts.' This is what I inform my clients all the time."
In hindsight, he understands what it tru...