When the first cases of AIDS were being uncovered, he was serving as chief medical resident at the U.C.L.A. Medical Center. Two of the five original cases he treated himself.
當愛滋病例剛被披露時，他正在洛杉磯加州大學醫學中心擔任總住院醫師，五位病人中有兩位他曾親自診療過。