The Humpty Dumpty Syndrome: Fixing Broken Faces

Early in his groundbreaking career as a maxillofacial surgeon, Dr. Morton Goldberg coined “The Humpty Dumpty Syndrome” to describe patients whose eggshell-thin facial bones had been damaged by trauma, disease, or malformation. The Humpty Dumpty Syndrome is his memoir of surgical adventures as he did what all the king’s horses and all the king’s men couldn’t. He put people back together again. His story begins in a dark, dusty basement at Harvard Medical School, where an epiphany launched a caree