All That Moves Us: A Pediatric Neurosurgeon, His Young Patients, and Their Stories of Grace and Resilience

by Jay Wellons

Despite all of that, I looked up after boarding school and college and found myself in medical school living my father’s dream, and that was just fine. I thought maybe I was there to learn something about what it means to be alive. I really had no idea what was to unfold over the next twenty-five years.

College

The brain and surrounding structures of a premature infant are vastly different from those of an eighteen-year-old, and I came to understand the importance of time itself as the fourth dimension of anatomy, the sizes of structures, and the key relationships between them and the fragility of all of it growing, evolving, as a child ages.

Time