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A BOY AND A BOOK
A DOCTORS TRUE TALE OF RESILIENCE THROUGH READING
BY ARLENE GROSS
Some people are destined for success.
For Dr. Harold Fernandez, vice chairman of cardiothoracic surgery at Bay Shore’s
South Shore University Hospital, a career in medicine was anything but guaranteed.
In fact, Dr. Fernandez, who has an undergraduate degree in molecular biology from
Princeton and a medical degree from Harvard, is a prime example of how a supportive
family and dogged determination can help you beat the odds set against you.
Dr. Fernandez, who is also professor of cardiothoracic surgery at Hofstra/Northwell
Zucker School of Medicine and Northwell Health’s system director of surgical heart
failure, credits his insatiable hunger for knowledge attained through books with his
achievements, and tells his story in his memoir/self-help book, A Boy and a Book:
Overcoming Obstacles Through the Magic of Reading.
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