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Fellow student from australia robin trethway who would later become his wife. he 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 7 life forever. >> it just hit at precisely the angle where all the force was transmitted to you one spot. and that is the cervical vertebra which severed the spinal cord. >> when did...

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 di...

>> reporter: it was there that one unexpected moment, a tragic diving accident changed charles's life forever. >> it just hit at the precise angle that all force was transmitted to one spot and that is the cervical vertebra that severed the spinal cord. >> when did you realize the accident was life altering? >> the second it happened. >> reporter: despite his permanent paralysis charles astounded his professors and classmates by graduating on time near the top of his class was ultimately decided the field wasn't for him, the career reversal he joked about on fox decades later. >> i'm a psychia...

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 ha...

Who would later become his wife. >> why did he 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 sever the spinal cord. >> when did you realize that the accident was life altering? >> the second it happened. >> despite his permanent paralysis, charles...