A Jacksonville researcher has developed a way of sewing up patients after hysterectomies that stands to reduce the risk of complications and simplify the tricky procedure for less-seasoned surgeons.
Oh, and he’s 14 years old.
Feel free to read that again.
Tony Hansberry II is a ninth-grader who, as it happens, will be presenting his findings today before an auditorium filled with doctors just like any of his board-certified – and decades older – colleagues would. He would say he was following in the footsteps of “Doogie Howser, M.D.” – if he weren’t too young to have heard of the television show.
Instead, he says that his remarkable accomplishments are merely steps toward his ultimate goal of becoming a University of Florida-trained neurosurgeon.
“I just want to help people and be respected, knowing that I can save lives,” said Tony, the son of a registered nurse mom and an African Methodist Episcopal church pastor dad.
To be sure, he had some help along the way, but, then again, most researchers do. The seeds of his project were planted last summer during his internship at the University of Florida’s Center for Simulation Education and Safety Research, based at Shands Jacksonville.
Source: blackplanet.com
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This is great. Wish they gave it more coverage on the news.
I think its great….and i will print it take it home and hope it inspires my boys to aim high.
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Pure propoganda.
Wartime, it’s people like you that keep other African Americans rom geting ahead. This is an awe inspiring story that should ahve been on all news outfits but it wasn’t. If he were white, it would be all over the place. I hope to hear his name and of his techniques in the future.
I seen this article online and made my son read it to show him that people of all ages can do big things i just wish it got more media coverage.
I found the article to be very enlighten. The young man Tony Hansberry II is a role model for young men in the 21st
century.