Gwen joined David Drew 19 years ago at age 53. Her initial evaluation discovered an asymptomatic kidney cancer that was cured surgically. Her case depicts the early discovery of an immediately life-threatening but curable medical problem and how that discovery can fundamentally change an individual’s trajectory by adding more than 16 prime years of life.

Bill is a 54 year old asymptomatic marathon runner whose initial David Drew evaluation uncovered an unexpected, very large accumulation of plaque in his heart’s arteries and an unusual inherited risk factor for early cardiovascular death. His case shows how an underlying and unsuspected medical problem can act over time to shorten life and how identifying and mitigating the risk early rescues prime years. It also demonstrates how Bill’s odds of reaching his life expectancy would have been further improved by beginning LOOKtoLIVE 10 years earlier.

Alex Typical is a person you might meet every day but never speak to. At David Drew, Alex is our average patient. If you’re 50 years old, Alex could be YOU. Alex’s story is included here not to demonstrate how an individual medical discovery adds years to life, but to exemplify the impact of the LOOKtoLIVE program on the life expectancy of a typical patient.