Bull in the Ring

Bull in the Ring is the story of an average young man trying to take a place among some of the most talented women and men in our society- neurosurgeons. This memoir traces his steps, beginning as a small boy witnessing his neurosurgeon father deal with two badly injured men in an emergency room. The story continues as he tries to prove he can compete athletically and intellectually through high school, college, medical school, and finally long years of surgical training. In doing so, he must deal with the most difficult problems in human illness and injury through the lens of an everyday person, while wondering the entire time if he had been delusional in dreaming he could follow in the footprints of giants. More importantly, it's the story of how a brilliant, tenacious specialty wages a daily struggle against death, but only wins when care and compassion are involved.