This book is an "only in America story," about how a first generation Italian/American mother guided and encouraged her son to become a physician and her son's reluctance to be that physician. Having no concept of what a physician really was, he chronicles his life, and his adopted vocation which he learned to love. It's also about the birth and maturation of cancer medicine that is played out in some of the most prestigious medical centers in the world.

The desire of one man, who never knew his own grandfathers to write his own story so his grandchildren would know who he was and where he came from. This inspiring book follows his life from birth into a working class family to the halls of academia. Overcoming self-doubt with determination and perseverance, he became a physician's physician.