HE ABANDONED HIS DISABLED NEWBORN TO PURSUE THE PERFECT LIFE BUT TWENTY FIVE YEARS LATER HIS SONS MEDICAL SCHOOL GRADUATION SPEECH LEFT HIM HUMILIATED IN FRONT OF HUNDREDS

fueled a fire that would eventually lead him to the highest honors of academia.

By the time Henry reached his teenage years his physical therapy had turned his anger into muscle. He was a young man who refused to be defined by a chart or a limp. He spent his nights reading medical journals at the kitchen table telling his mother he wanted to be the continue reading …