I knew that I wanted to be someone.… I wanted to be revered by the family … not only by my immediate one, but my extended family as well.… They all were so excited when I finished medical school that they had this large party for me. I still have the pictures. Actually, it spawned many other doctors in the family whose fathers said to them, “Forget about being a wallpaper hanger. If Mickey could do it, then you could do it!”
—MICHAEL (“MICKEY”) BRESCIA, M.D.