Kissed my first girl. Lost my first patient. Life will never be the same again...
September 21, 1989
Today is my sixteenth birthday. A major milestone because my driver's license is at long last a reality. Which means tomorrow, Sept. 22, I'll be behind the wheel on the way to the Harvest Dance with Wanda Plenn, the prettiest, most beautiful girl in the whole world.
I got a perfect score on the SATs when I was six, breezed through high school in nine weeks, graduated from Princeton when I was ten (had to stand on a phone book at the podium), got my medical license at age fourteen, delivered a baby in a shopping mall, appeared on the game show "High IQ," and had leukemia... twice! But I'm still just your average kid!