It's not often that a high school brawl with gang members sets you down a path to becoming a Harvard-trained doctor. But that's exactly how AlisterFMartin's life unfolded. MedTwitter
Alister Martin, MD, had initially planned to follow in his stepfather's footsteps, managing the drug store in Neptune, NJ, township where he was raised. But a fight changed his prospects.
When his mother rushed to the hospital, he was so bruised and bloody that she couldn't recognize him at first. Ever since he was a baby, she had done her best to shield him from the neighborhood where gang violence was a regular disruption. But it hadn't worked. Martin had loved tennis since middle school, when his eighth-grade math teacher, Billie Weise, also a tennis pro, got him a job as a court sweeper at an upscale tennis club nearby. He knew nothing then about tennis but would come to fall in love with the sport. To get her son out of town, Martin's mother took out loans for $30,000 and sent him to a Florida tennis training camp.
After graduating, he decided to pursue his dream of becoming a doctor. He'd wanted to be a doctor since he was 10 years old after his mom was diagnosed with metastatic
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