Christopher J. Knott-Craig MD - No Crying Allowed: The Journey from Farm Boy to Pediatric Cardiac Surgeon: A Collection of Essays and Memoirs
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From the time author Christopher J. Knott-Craig was fourteen years old, he wanted to be a heart surgeon. He had followed Professor Christiaan Barnards career and first heart transplant in December 1967, and he wanted to be like him and work for him. Knott-Craig started his cardiac surgery training in 1980, and about six months later, his professor suggested he try a different specialty. Undaunted, he begged for a second chance, which the professor reluctantly granted.
Through perseverance, hard work, and determination, Knott-Craig became an internationally recognized pediatric cardiac surgeon. InNo Crying Allowed, with self-deprecating humor, he shares a collection of essays chronicling the trials and tribulations he experienced on his journey to following his dream to succeed.
Chris Knott-Craig has assembled an anthology of essays describing some of the challenges and triumphs he has experienced during his remarkable career as a pediatric heart surgeon. Above all, the takeaway message is the importance of persistence in the face of what often appear to be insurmountable obstacles to a successful career in this daunting field of endeavor.
-Richard Jonas MD, President of the
American Association of Thoracic Surgeons
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Other Books by Christopher J. Knott-Craig
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The Weird Animal Club
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The Weird Animal Club Goes to School
No Crying Allowed
The Journey from Farm Boy
to Pediatric Cardiac Surgeon:
A Collection of Essays and Memoirs
CHRISTOPHER J. KNOTT-CRAIG, MD
Copyright 2018 Christopher J. Knott-Craig, Md.
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ISBN: 978-1-4808-6352-1 (sc)
ISBN: 978-1-4808-6353-8 (e)
Library of Congress Control Number: 2018960306
Archway Publishing rev. date: 10/8/2018
Contents
To my darling childrenChristopher, Mary-Ann, and Catherineand for Connie and Danese, who have loved and supported me through all the trials and tribulations
Come on, wind; make me strong
(Challenging the headwind to blow stronger in order to build stamina while training for a marathon.)
Most young people have dreams for themselves and for their lives before society systematically tries to persuade them that they are not good enough to achieve those dreams. I am no exception. From the age of fourteen, I wanted to be a cardiac surgeon. I entered medical school already wanting to be a cardiac surgeon. When I finally started training as a cardiac surgeon, I was quickly told that I was not good enough to succeed and that I needed to do something else. But I persevered with only my dreams and my dogged determination. This book is many things, but it is essentially a telling of that journey to realize my dreams. And, along the way, I share the self-deprecating humor, experiences, and renegade thinking that have resulted in the person I am today, leading to one of the top pediatric cardiac surgery programs in the world.
It was warm and thick and creamy. It landed in a bucket that was positioned on the ground close to where the urine landed. And I was supposed to drink thisand be excited about it. You have got to be kidding me!
I was four years old and was on the farm with my grandparents (Ouma and Oupa, as we called them). At five thirty in the morning my brother, Alan, and I had to help milk the cows. We sat on stools and milked the teats, directing the milk into stainless steel buckets that stood precariously close to the back legs of the cowand even closer to where the urine landed when the cow peed. When the udders were empty and the buckets were full, we carried the buckets to a shallow cement pond that looked like a cement baking pan and emptied the milk into it. A long pole centered in the pond slowly revolved, skimming the milk of the cream that was on top. This was used for making butter and cheese. But before the milk was skimmed, we used a pail to scoop out enough fresh, warm, creamy milk for breakfast. Everyone jostled to get the first glass of warm fresh milk. All except me, that is. For me, milk was supposed to come from a bottle in the fridge, not from the udder of a cow I knew by name.
I could not drink it. I could not even taste it.
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