When the wealthy couple saw their newborn’s face, the mother gasped, “Take him away, he’s a monster.” They abandoned him at the hospital. A kind nurse raised him. Twenty years later, the couple desperately needed a rare surgery. The world-famous surgeon walked in, revealed his birthmark, and…

Mitchell’s continued guidance, I found my absolute calling: advanced pediatric craniofacial and reconstructive surgery. I was not interested in tweaking the noses of socialites or injecting fillers into aging actresses. I wanted to rebuild shattered bone. I wanted to take the children the world deemed “monstrous”—the cleft palates, the severe burn continue reading …