•••quote:•••Originally posted by Taty:
• •••quote:•••Originally posted by The Fly:
•There was a thread here a couple of months back about a 17 (yes, seventeen at
graduation) year-old-who graduated from Sinai a few years back and who's now in his Optho residency somewhere in NYC. . .
He finished NYC in two years, graduated when he was 13 and then began medical school where he finished in the usual four years.
Now that's WAAAAAAAAAAY too young -- that poor kid will probably burn out at thirty after having had no childhood. I think that is absolutely depressing. . .•••••Rumors...nothing was like that at Sinai, and does it even possible?•••••Rumors. . . I don't think so.
Here's the article-- do a search on Lexis-Nexis if you'd like:
•••quote:••• From the Boston Herald •
Copyright 1995 Boston Herald Inc.
The Boston Herald
May 17, 1995 Wednesday SECOND EDITION
SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 001
LENGTH: 401 words
HEADLINE: Teen doc headed to Hub
BYLINE: By Michael Lasalandra
BODY:
Doogie Howser, M.D., is coming to Boston.
The Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary has confirmed that 17-year-old Balamurali "Bala" Ambati has been accepted to a four-year residency in ophthalmology starting next year.
The gangly New York City teen-ager who just got his driver's license last week will graduate Friday from New York's Mount Sinai School of Medicine, becoming a full-fledged medical doctor. He is the youngest ever to graduate from medical school, according to the American Association of Medical Colleges.
Ambati will not be coming to Boston directly, however. He will first do a one-year internship at North Shore University Hospital on Long Island, N.Y.
At an age when when most kids are busy dealing with acne, Ambati spent two months on the trauma team of a hospital emergency room in Queens, treating gunshot wounds and stabbings.
The young doctor-to-be moved to the United States from his native India at age 3, finished two elementary school grades each year and graduated from high school in Baltimore at age 11.
That year, he also wrote a book on AIDS with his then 17-year-old brother, Jayakrishna, which won an award from the American Medical Association.
Ambati graduated magna cum laude from New York University and entered medical school at 14.
The teen-age phenom, who said he made a conscious effort to become the youngest-ever medical school graduate, likes to spend his spare time playing basketball, chess, ping pong and watching the TV show "E.R."
Ambati said he picked Massachusetts Eye and Ear, a Harvard Medical School teaching hospital, for his residency because "I've always wanted to go to the best."
The boy wonder said he has only been to Boston once - for his interview at the hospital. But he said he was impressed with what he saw.
"It seems very nice," he said.
He said that his 6-foot frame often hid his age from patients, but some "found out through the grapevine after a few weeks. There was always a period of astonishment."
But Ambati said he doesn't expect to encounter any problems because of his age.
"I've found people to be very friendly and open-minded," he said. "I've had extremely positive interactions with all my patients. They don't seem to mind my age at all."
The only thing he doesn't like is when people call him Doogie Howser, after the TV show about a teen-age doctor.
"It's getting a little old," he said.
•••••Anyone want to reevaluate their position on whether or not what I had to say was a rumor or not ?!?! :wink:
Seriously, this is totally true!
