Robert Wright:  

It is definitely a sign of age when you find yourself remembering high school and then realize that it has been almost a half-century ago!! I had another similar feeling the other day while attending a medical meeting at one of the hospitals I attend: I now sit with all of the "old geezers" and realize that I do not know many of the new doctors; who also most probably do not know me! In a capsule, following graduation from SFS in 1966, I graduated from the University of Texas with a BA in History and a minor in Mandarin Chinese. After almost two years in a history master program, I gave in and went back to get all the requirements for medical school. Despite being assured that I was "too old" at the age of 24-25 years-old, I was accepted into, and graduated from, Baylor Medical School at Houston, Texas. I had orginally planned on continuing at Baylor in their cardiac surgery program, until I was seduced by the siren call of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and the opportunity to study under two of the pre-eminent surgeons. I was, and still am, enamored with reconstruction of cleft lips and palates (I still review the pictures of these type of patients that my dad worked on in Pusan, who learned these techniques from Dr. Mallard; and who my dad had as an attending at Hermann Hospital in Houston in 1951 before Dr. Mallard was sent to Korea during the war), and craniofacial deformities (monstor babies). During my Plastic and Reconstructive training, I had the privilage of working under Dr. Te...Expand for more