, wrote his reflective article "My Medical Conspiracy" during an era his children would never know. 1 His conspiracy involved using an assumed name to sit in classrooms not open to osteopathic physicians in the 1950's. A legacy to his progeny was to obtain the best possible training in medicine, commitment to patient centered care and the value of the osteopathic perspective. Upon entering osteopathic medical school in the 1980's, those barriers had been replaced by unique obstacles from that stage in medicine yet to be adequately addressed. Those obstacles would prove to be opportunities for growth and healing from all sides of medicine.