Charles Krauthammer: A Career In Medical Education

281 Words2 Pages
Roman Kokowksy
Ms. Villanueva
AP English Language
Charles Krauthammer Biography
Krauthammer was born in New York City on March 13, 1950 to Jewish parents who raised him and his brother in Montreal during the school year and NY during the summers. He graduated McGill University in Montreal in 1970 with degrees in economics and political science. The next year, Krauthammer became a Commonwealth Scholar studying politics at Balliol College, Oxford before returning to the United States to enroll in medical school at Harvard. He was paralyzed from a diving board incident during his first year of medical school but continued his medical studies at Harvard, and graduated in 1975. From 1975 to 1978, Krauthammer worked in Massachusetts General Hospital