Patients facing the challenges of disease rarely consider how amazing they are physically. There are many creatures that are stronger, faster, have better sight, hearing, or smell, for example. The common view is that there is very little physically that we can point to and think of ourselves as special. The mental gulf between us and other creatures is clear, but physically, the sense is that we are challenged.
I would claim that we are truly gifted physically and the proof I offer is the pianist. There is no human activity that, for me, better illustrates the incredible capability of our species. No other species can compare to the amazing perfection of the human hand. To illustrate, take a moment and enjoy this short. 3 minute, piano performance by Célimène Daudet.
DEBUSSY La Puerta del Vino - Célimène DAUDET
Ms. Daudet is a gifted French pianist whose work we admire. She performs on many prestigious stages in France and abroad in venues such as Carnegie Hall, the Philharmonies of Ninji and Rostov in Russia, the Astana Opera in Kazakhstan, the Opéra de Lyon, le Cent Quatre and the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, the Shanghai Oriental Arts Center, the Beijing National Center for performing Arts to name a few.
This benefit recital will be on the same weekend as the MOSAIC meeting. Proceeds will benefit the Fatty Liver Foundation in our efforts to support patients with liver disease.
Here is a link describing the event and if you will be in the DC area October 23rd, particularly if you are attending the MOSAIC meeting, consider joining us for this uplifting program.
TICKETS Daudet piano recital at the French Embassy Washington DC Oct 23rd
Our annual State of Care Survey of how liver patients are doing is also live. I know you may have taken this survey before and we thank you, but if you have, it is important that you update this one. Our goal is to track the changes in patient care over time. The changes are important. How is treatment changing, are new therapies being prescribed, are patients being educated? These are just a few of the questions we are trying to answer.
We can't press the system to do better if we can't show them data that change is needed, so please join us by clicking the link and take the survey.
