was accepted to harvard. but krauthammer put off attending and enrolled at oxford instead. it was there that he met fellow student from australia, robin trethway who would later become his wife. charles reversed course and headed back to the u.s. to attend harvard. >> why did you choose psychiatry. >> i was looking for something halfway between the reality of medicine and the elegance if you like of philosophy. so psychiatry was the obvious thing. >> bret: it was there that one magic divin tragic diving a. >> it hit precisely the one angle where all out force one spot that is the cervical vertebrae which severed the spinal cord. >> bret: when did you realize the accident was life altering. >> the second it happened. >> bret: despite his patrol cyst he astounded professors and classmates by graduating