{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"CRAIG YORKE, M.D.: A BLACK NEUROSURGEON TALKS ABOUT SUCCESS & FINDING IDENTITY: EP. 318","description":"In Steep: A Black Neurosurgeon\u2019s Journey, DR. CRAIG YORKE traces a life defined by ascent\u2014personal and professional. Born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, and molded by parents who demanded excellence as both armor and ambition, Yorke\u2019s journey from the projects of Boston to the operating rooms of Topeka, Kansas, is both breathtaking and intimate.   A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School, Yorke became a neurosurgeon in an era when few Black physicians walked hospital halls. Yet Steep is less a story of racism\u2019s obvious blows than of the subtler burdens success can impose. It asks: What is the cost of living your parents\u2019 dream, rather than your own? How do you reconcile brilliance with belonging, triumph with tenderness?   Carig\u2019s story  is a meditation on identity, legacy, and the pursuit of meaning. The title itself evokes both arduous climbs and slow transformations\u2014the double edge of a life \u201csteeped\u201d in expectation. Moving from Boston\u2019s grit to Kansas calm, Yorke reveals not only the making of a surgeon, but the unmaking of a man who must learn to live beyond achievement.   www.craigyorke.com   ","author_name":"THE EXPLODING HUMAN with Bob Nickman","author_url":"http:\/\/theexplodinghuman.com","html":"