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 half way between the reality of medicine and the elegance, if you like, of philosophy. so psychiatry was the obvious thing. it was there that one unexpected moment, a tragic diving accident changed charles life forever. it just hit at precisely the angle where all the force was transmitted to one spot and that is the cervical vertebra which severed the spinal cord. when did you realize that the accident was life altering? the second it happened. despite his permanent paralysis, charles astounded his professors and classmates by graduating on time near the top of his class. ultimately he decided the field wasn t for him. a career reversal he joked
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. it was there that one unexpected moment, a tragic diving accident, changed charles life forever. it just hit at precisely the angle were all the force is transmitted to one spot, and that is the cervical vertebra which severed the spinal cord. when did you realize that the accident was life-altering? the second it happened. despite his permanent paralysis, charles started his professors and classmates by graduating on time, near the top of his class. ultimately he decided the field wasn t for him, a career reversal he joked about on fox decades later. i m a psychiatrist in remission.
there. and the pain b obviously it s over there on that side of your hip. yeah. little bit of both. but more on the right side. than the left. that s where the bullet went in. right above my right hip. and the doctor got it out. four pieces. and now i got a couple of screws ma in my back and vertebra. so, what happened? do you remember all of the moment? when it happened? yeah. it was, jason aldean had just started his set. he was fourth song. started hearing dot dot dot, thought it was fireworks going off. it kept going and the next thing you know, just heard people
of recovering. the bullet went through his hand, as we understand it, and fractured a vertebra in his neck. can you just explain how it is possible that he is sitting next to you doing as well as he is doing this morning? it s a very remarkable story. bullets don t necessarily take a straight line trajectory, and that s what happened with ian, it went through his hand and went into his body and made a right turn, and hit his clavicle, ribs, and the srur traeb rul body of his spine, fortunately missing his spinal cord and lodging in his left shoulder area. he had a collapsed lung and bleed into his chest, and had to have a chest tube and reconstructive surgery on his hand, that his vocal cord is off as you can hear from his raspy voice, we are trying to redefine
of friendship and support and good counsel for michelle and me over the years. they are as fine a couple as we know, and so we want to send our prayers and our love to them. really good people. president bush spent a week at methodist hospital, back in 2014, you remember. through the christmas holiday when he was also treated for shortness of breath. then the following year, the elder bush was hospitalized in may after breaking a vertebra in his neck from falling at their kennebunkport home. for now, the president and mrs. bush, the former first lady, resting comfortably here at methodist hospital back behind me. no word on when they could be discharged from the hospital. thank you, casey. back to president obama s final news conference today.