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Breaking Ground - My Life in Medicine (Paperback)
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While Louis W. Sullivan was a student at Morehouse College,
Morehouse president Benjamin Mays said something to the student
body that stuck with him for the rest of his life. The tragedy of
life is not failing to reach our goals, Mays said It is not having
goals to reach. In Breaking Ground Sullivan recounts his
extraordinary life beginning with his childhood in Jim Crow south
Georgia and continuing through his trailblazing endeavors training
to become a physician in an almost entirely white environment in
the Northeast, founding and then leading the Morehouse School of
Medicine in Atlanta, and serving as secretary of Health and Human
Services in President George H. W. Bush's administration.
Throughout this extraordinary life Sullivan has passionately
championed both improved health care and increased access to
medical professions for the poor and people of color. At five years
old, Louis Sullivan declared to his mother that he wanted to be a
doctor. Given the harsh segregation in Blakely, Georgia, and its
lack of adequate schools for African Americans at the time, his
parents sent Louis and his brother, Walter, to Savannah and later
Atlanta, where greater educational opportunities existed for
blacks. After attending Booker T. Washington High School and
Morehouse College, Sullivan went to medical school at Boston
University he was the sole African American student in his class.
He eventually became the chief of hematology there until Hugh
Gloster, the president of Morehouse College, presented him with an
opportunity he couldn't refuse: Would Sullivan be the founding dean
of Morehouse's new medical school? He agreed and went on to create
a state-of-the-art institution dedicated to helping poor and
minority students become doctors. During this period he established
long-lasting relationships with George H. W. and Barbara Bush that
would eventually result in his becoming the secretary of Health and
Human Services in 1989. Sullivan details his experiences in
Washington dealing with the burgeoning AIDS crisis, PETA activists,
and antismoking efforts, along with his efforts to push through
comprehensive health care reform decades before the Affordable Care
Act. Along the way his interactions with a cast of politicos,
including Thurgood Marshall, Jack Kemp, Clarence Thomas, Jesse
Helms, and the Bushes, capture vividly a particular moment in
recent history. Sullivan's life - from Morehouse to the White House
and his ongoing work with medical students in South Africa - is the
embodiment of the hopes and progress that the civil rights movement
fought to achieve. His story should inspire future generations - of
all backgrounds - to aspire to great things.
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