Drawing on a decade of caring for children with congenital malformations, Dr. Robert Marion writes movingly of the reare disorders that face his patients, their families, and the medical staff who treats them, in this collection of spellbinding stories linked by a common theme: the triumph of courage and compassion over illness.
Robert Marion is a pediatrician, medical geneticist, and author. Born in the beautiful Bronx, New York, he has spent his entire career working in that borough. Currently professor of pediatrics and obstetrics and gynecology and women's health at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the Ruth L. Gottesman Professor of Developmental Pediatrics at Einstein, he has a lot of administrative titles, including Director of the Children's Evaluation and Rehabilitation Center and the University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities at the Rose F. Kennedy Center, chief of genetics and development medicine at the Children's Hospital at Montefiore and Director of the Center for Congenital Disorders, Director of Genetics at Blythedale Children's Hospital in Valhalla, New York.
Dr. Marion is the author of seven published books, including GENETIC ROUNDS: A DOCTOR'S LIFE IN THE FIELD THAT REVOLUTIONIZED MEDICINE. His book, THE BOY WHO FELT NO PAIN won a Christopher Award and THE INTERN BLUES is a cult classic.
A resident of Westchester County, he lives with his wife, Beth Schoenbrun, a teacher at Scarsdale High School, and is the father of three children.
