After graduation, John Green spent a few months filling in as a student chaplain at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio while enlisted at the University of Chicago Divinity School. He was planning on becoming an Episcopal priest, however, his experiences of working in a hospital with children fighting life-threatening illnesses made him want to be an author and write The Fault in Our Stars. While working as a chaplain in the hospital, he developed a friendship with a teenage cancer patient named Esther Grace Earl. As a cancer patient, people believe that they can’t live productive and fulfilling lives even while experiencing treatment. For us to have this thought process as an advanced generation reveals how ignorant we can truly …show more content…
Amid that same period, the US Army was examining various chemicals identified with mustard gas to grow more powerful means for war furthermore create defensive measures. Over the span of that work, a compound called nitrogen mustard was concentrated on and found to conflict with a disease of the lymph hubs called lymphoma. These operators served as the model for a long arrangement of comparative yet more successful specialists (called alkylating operators) that murdered quickly developing tumor cells by harming their DNA. Not long after the founding of nitrogen mustard, Sidney Farber of Boston revealed that aminopterin, a compound identified with the vitamin folic corrosive, created reductions in youth with acute leukemia. Aminopterin hindered a basic concoction response required for DNA replication. That medication was the forerunner of methotrexate, a cancer treatment drug utilized normally today. From that point forward, different scientists found medications that piece diverse capacities in cell development and replication. The time of chemotherapy had