Second Lives

A neurologist grapples with the aftermath of his traumatic brain injury, forever changing how he treats patients and their families, in this moving examination of recovery and healing. Ralph Lilly was a forty-four-year-old practicing neurologist sitting on his when a drunk driver rear-ended him on his motorcycle in 1980. In the ICU, after regaining consciousness and being told what happened, he asked, “What’s a hospital? What’s a motorcycle?” His accident and subsequent struggle toward recovery