Asthma – Dr. Paul Sachs – Help for the Sufferer – Education for Everyone

Try breathing through a straw ( a thin straw) with a noe clip on and walking up a flight of stairs. That’s the way Dr. Paul Sachs describes the plight of the asthma sufferer. If you never had it, you might not be able to appreciate how it feels. Understanding this condition should help both sufferers and others to deal with it and how a normal way of life is achievable.

Dr. Paul Sachs is Director of Pulmonary Medicine at Stamford Hospital, Stamford, CT. A graduate of New York University School of Medicine, he did residency at New York Hospital / Cornell Medical Center and fellowships with Montefiore Hospital and Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Sachs is affiliated also with Pukmonary Associates of Stamford.

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