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I'm a medical doctor and a biomedical scientist.

I have devoted much time and energy to helping medical physics in developing countries.

At heart, I'm a reconstructive surgeon.

I had a doctorate in biological anthropology. I got a post-doc at CWRU dental school in 1983 teaching gross anatomy.

I was going to college to be a doctor.

I have a Bachelor in medicine, a Bachelor in surgery, and I am a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons.

I was a bio major, and I was going to take over my aunt's dental practice and be a dentist.

I went to medical school after having decided to do so somewhere between my junior and senior year at Harvard - very late. I initially wanted to be an intellectual historian.

I do work half time as a historian of medicine at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, and I started my career with work in the 19th century.