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Sam: the Boy Behind the Mask by TOM HALLMAN,Jr. is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Sam: The Boy Behind the Mask tells the true, heart-wrenching story of Sam Lightner. Born with a rare disfiguring growth that covers and distorts the left side of his face, skull, and neck-Sam is determined to live a normal life. For fourteen years, doctors refuse to operate on Sam, until an elite team of surgeons at Boston Children's Hospital undertake a risky thirteen-hour operation to remove the malformation. Sam nearly dies on the operating table, but survives, and returns home to begin his freshman year of high school. However, when doctors discover excess fluid around his brain, Sam slips into a coma, and is not expected to live. As the family and doctors begin to give up, one doctor-pediatric neurosurgeon Monica Wehby-keeps believing, even as all hope seems lost. The only female in the boy's club of neurosurgery, Dr. Wehby is scorned for refusing to accept facts and for allowing her emotions-as a woman-to cloud her medical judgment. But she perseveres, staying by Sam's side, until he moves first a finger, then a foot, and finally, begins to interact with those around him. Tom Hallman's Pulitzer prize-winning series on Sam Lightner in The Oregonian touched the city of Portl

Who reads Sam: the Boy Behind the Mask?

Author

TOM HALLMAN,Jr.

Publisher

New York: Berkley Books

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780425191743

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Medical, Fiction, Medicine

Rating

4.07 / 5 (63 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13