“Don’t worry. He won’t die; he’ll just wish he was dead.” Dr. Kenji Oyasu stood shocked at the words coming from his senior medical resident when he was an intern in Chicago. Oyasu just had his first encounter with a person in heroin...
As a child, Dr. Burak Ozgur noticed his father’s gentle spirit and humility, which he carried into his neurosurgery practice. His father’s lack of ostentatious details, such as a flashy car or an expensive watch, conveyed to Ozgur a deep sense of peace and...