C. Everett's Life began in Brooklyn in 1916. He grew up as an only child. His mother was warned to avoid pregnancies after his older brother, who was still born, almost killed her during birth. However, his mother did not head the doctor's warning and five years later, C Everett Koop came into this world. Koop had a very traumatic birth. His mother was in labor for ninety-two hours. Eventually, The doctors performed a cesarean section. C. Everett Koop said, "I often wonder if my traumatic entry into this world had something to do with the path I chose in life" (Koop, 20 ).

When Koop was in grade school he said that he knew that he wanted to be a surgeon. He thought about it everyday and dreamed about what it would be like. Koop went to Dewey High School in Brooklyn

After a series of promotions he was named professor of Pediatric Surgery at the school of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania in 1959, and later Professor of Pediatrics in 1971 (C. Everett Koop, 1)

In Koop's life he influenced and helped many people. C. Everett Koop is definitely a great medical hero who will be remembered forever for the accomplishments he made during his lifetime.

Koop wrote in his journal when he was sixteen, "Now at sixteen, I picture myself a great surgeon being consulted by other surgeons no less great. Nothing seems to give me a bigger thrill and would please me more than to operate on a human being from an altruistic viewpoint of removing his ills, or from the scientific view of giving to science information unknown to it." Soon, Koop made another landmark in his life when he went to Dartmouth College. He met his love, Betty there, which he would spend the rest of his life with. He also obtained the skills, and the knowledge that he would need later to be a great surgeon and Surgeon General. He graduated from Dartmouth in 1937. Then after Columbia's University's College of Physicians and Surgeons turned him down he went to Cornell University. He graduated in June 1941 from Cornell University. Then he made an application to a training program at Vanderbilt University in Nashville and was turned away because he was married. He finally ended up in an interview at the University of Pennsylvania and got an internship at Pennsylvania Hospital. He enjoyed that greatly. He worked with many of the best doctors and surgeons and learned a great deal. At times, money was short but him and Betty made it through the hard times. Later, Koop said that it was well worth the sacrifice to be so privileged during these times. (Koop, 70)

His spiritual awakening had a profound affect on his life and everything that happened thereafter. Everyday, he was faced with the pain and suffering of his patients and their parents. He now had the assurance that there was a greater plan that he could trust in. (Koop, 116)

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