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Grace Dammann

From AIDS Ward to Wheelchair: Medicine, Awareness, and Healing

August 16, 2025

What happens when a "party girl" with no love for science asks her heart what she's meant to do—and it tells her to become a doctor? Grace Dammann's radical act of listening led her through the AIDS epidemic to her own devastating accident that left her wheelchair-bound after 48 days in a coma. The twist: her brain injury became a gateway to revolutionary wisdom about what true compassion actually looks like. She discovered that most of our "helping" creates dependence—and that real love serves in ways that set people free. Ready to discover what your heart has been trying to tell you?

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