>> all right. >> yeah. >> gawande: i'm atul gawande. i'm a doctor from boston, but also a writer. so, derek, you've had a number of hospital stays and emergency room visits because of asthma, i hear. >> right. >> gawande: what happens when you have your asthma attack? >> when i start wheezing, my lungs are actually, you know... it's like a rubber band. it just closes up, like, really tight, and it'll be hard for me to breathe. >> we think the house probably is part of it. there's a lot of dust, with the walls, the open walls. >> yeah. >> gawande: would you mind, derek, if i have kathy just show me around the places in the house that she thinks might be contributing to your asthma? >> yeah, sure. >> gawande: okay. that'd be great. i'd just like to see for myself. >> okay. >> you want to lead the way, then? >> gawande: before kathy started working with him, derek was in the emergency room 35 times over six months. oh, yeah, there's lots of mold in here. that cannot help your asthma. kathy's work with derek includes everything from inhalers to insurance to finding a contractor willing