"But here were people of unquestioned authority that believed in me long before I learned to believe in myself."

Black Males in Medicine

My View

Gregory A. Threatte, MD

"Then, at Colgate, I needed a part-time job and the financial aid office sent me to the physics department. Shortly after I started to work there, 2 faculty members began trying to talk me into becoming a physics major, and a physics major is what I became. As little as I knew about college as a freshman, it probably helped not knowing that physics was supposed to be hard! But here were people of unquestioned authority that believed in me long before I learned to believe in myself."