Matthew Brackman

Oct 30, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Stacy Wentworth |Michael Poku |Susan Levenstein |Matthew Brackman

It is rare that an ABC movie of the week endures. Buzz Kulick’s 1971 Brian’s Song is the notable exception. IMDB describes the movie as a “beloved tearjerker,” which portrays the friendship between Chicago Bears teammates Gale Sayers and Brian Piccolo in the mid-1960s. Central to the plot is not only the race-based prejudice that existed in professional football at the time but also the public depiction of cancer in early 1970s America.

Oct 30, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Matthew Brackman |Ken Terry |Sara Pastoor |Christopher Habig

I have often wondered where I would be if I had never been accepted to medical school. After all, I got in by the slimmest of margins. I even failed at one application round, finally matriculating at Boston University after an icy post-college winter delivering UPS packages through the snow-covered streets of Cambridge and a depressingly lazy summer punching receipts at the exit to BJ’s Wholesale Club.