A Success Story

Using modern day vernacular, Charles Krauthammer is one cool dude. You’ve seen him as a panelist on the Fox Evening News with Brett Baier and you’ve probably read his weekly opinion column which appears in the Washington Post. He also is a contributing editor to the Weekly Standard and the New Republic and has appeared on numerous other TV shows. Politically, Charles is a “centrist”, he is keenly articulate and uses wit at times to get a point across. I think of him as the modern day William F. Buckley who hosted “Firing Line” from 1966 to 1999.
He was born in New York City and raised in Montreal, Canada where he attained an honors degree in political science and economics in 1970. Later he moved to the United States where he attended Harvard Medical School.

While in Med School, Krauthammer broke his neck as a result of a diving accident, resulting in his becoming a quadriplegic, he was hospitalized for one year, during which time he continued his medical studies. He went on to graduate with his class, earning an M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1975 and he began working as a psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital. In 1984, he became board certified in psychiatry.

From 1975-1978, Charles was a Resident and then Chief Resident in Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital. During this time he and a colleague identified a form of mania resulting from a concomitant medical illness rather than a primary inherent disorder.

In 1981 he began his journalistic career and won a Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1987 while working at the Washington Post. Know for his eloquence, wittiness and charm, Krauthammer is an example of what can be accomplished after suffering a most debilitative injury such as quadriplegia. If he can do it, so can you.

Connie Lukas

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