“Well, it was, you know, long after it happened. I think it happened when he was 14 years old, but it was also quite a bit of time before a book, before a movie, and before a would be president,” Price said. “And we were in the surgical lounge and we were talking about what led us to become physicians, it’s kind of a common conversation for people to have, and at that time I thought he was a resident just like me, because he looked so young and I had come into it a little older because I had done electrical engineering in the interim, and I thought he was at my level.

“You know there is a hierarchy at Hopkins, and I probably wouldn’t have been having a personal conversation had I known that he was already attending and chief of pediatric neurosurgery, but of course he took the fast track, and uh, but he was a very approachable and humble guy. We just had a personal conversation at about three in the morning waiting for a patient to come down and, he told me that story, and in fact, I had never heard the story after that because I didn’t read the book, I didn’t watch the movie, and in fact, just now, when you played that little tape of him telling the story, that’s the first time I’ve actually heard it aside from him almost 30 years ago, and I saw it on CNN that they were questioning the veracity of that story. And I thought, ‘well wait a minute, you know, why would he tell lowly me, before he could possibly have known that he would be a famous neurosurgeon if it wasn’t true.’”