‘I needed to be next to my patient’: The cancer doctor who braved Harvey to reach his hospital
Dr. Adi Diab walked roughly three miles, wading through stretches shin-deep waters, to help his team conduct an experimental treatment.
Timing was everything for this cancer patient. Scientists had already harvested billions of cells in a cutting-edge lab for months. The doctors had performed a handful of rounds of chemotherapy to weaken the tumor. Now came the most crucial part: infusing those cultivated cells back into the patient. If the experimental treatment worked, Dr. Adi Diab felt the patient might have a shot at beating late-stage melanoma.
The Houston oncologist had his patient travel over 100 miles from Louisiana to be admitted at in advance of the infusion. In the midst of chemotherapy, the storm that would become Harvey slowly spun west through
