heroes for today

[hitchhiker]

https://www.cleveland.com/tipoff/2019/07/car-mechanic-shifts-gears-becomes-a-doctor-at-age-47-and-helps-address-shortage-of-black-doctors.html

Allamby remembered once dreaming of becoming a doctor when he was a child, but, “Somewhere through junior high and high school, that had gotten beaten out of me.”

And he had no black doctors as role models.

(also shoutout to cjsmith who did something similar but for becoming a vet)

Comments

[minoanmiss]

oh my wow. Yes, my brother.

[cjsmith]

Aw, except I failed. Good on him!