Opening the skull is sacred. Dr. Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa narrates his journey, steeped in metaphor, from migrant farmworker to premier neurosurgeon.

Shaped by horror films, feminism and an intellectually rigorous family, Dr. Nancy Ascher makes history as the first woman to perform a liver transplant.

After falling in love with the heart, Dr. Devi Shetty takes the next step to become a cardiac surgeon. Then a visit with Mother Teresa changes his life.

An innovative, compassionate fetal medicine specialist, Dr. Kypros Nicolaides guides his patients through emotionally fraught pregnancy complications.