The first time Dr. Munci Kalayoglu scrubbed and went into the operating room, his realization that he really wanted to be a surgeon was confirmed. But that wasn’t always the case.
Earlier in life he planned to be an architect, but he couldn’t pass the engineering school exam in Turkey, where he was born and raised. So he switched gears, setting his sights on medical school. He passed the medical exam with flying colors.
Instead of focusing on building designs, Kalayoglu (kuh-LIE-uh-loo) has saved more than 1,400 lives as a liver transplant surgeon at University Hospital.
….Kalayoglu’s story is among those told by veteran medical journalist Stephen Busalacchi in his new book “White Coat Wisdom,” described on the cover as a book in which “extraordinary doctors talk about what they do, how they got there and why medicine is so much more than a job.”