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…

network had promoted it heavily within the medical community. I knew the exact moment the camera zoomed in on the distinct crimson mark stretching across my jawline, they would freeze. I knew they would do the math on my age, look at the timeline of my birth, and realize that the brilliant, celebrated, fiercely beloved surgeon on their television was continue reading …