At the moment, Mee is as close to being a doctor as he can get. With his formidable frame and Sean Connery beard, he looks the part as he volunteers three days a week at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Brighton, around the corner from the home where he and his seven siblings grew up, and where he still lives with his mother, Mary, a retired Harvard secretary. There's nobody else whose job it is to do that. He retains enough medical knowledge to know what's wrong, and inspires them with his own story. Some people think they are going to die.
People are down, their families are down.
Ironically, he's a lot closer to patients than he would ever have been as a surgeon, but it remains painful to see medical-school classmates walking the floors teaching new students. Does that feeling kill you. But I look at football as an example. Look at the half. You keep going.