You have lung disease because you smoked.
If you never smoked, you have asthma.
People think so. Worse: doctors think so.
It's why it takes so long for an Alpha with breathing problems to be properly diagnosed. (Typically 5.6 years, says a recent study.)
It's why lots of lung specialists say they've never had an Alpha-1 patient. It's extremely rare, no point looking for it. So they don't think about it, don't look for it... insuring they'll never see it.
Changing anyone's mind is very, very tough. Changing an expert's mind is even tougher. Pulmonologists are experts.
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