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From menial jobs to a Tufts neurologist, a doctor's long and torturous journey

By The Boston Globe  
   March 23, 2022

By any measure, Peter Tatum has led an improbable life. He was born dependent on heroin and cocaine, lived in foster care, immersed himself in New York’s hip-hop world, and bounced from one dead-end job to another before deciding that he wanted to become a medical doctor.

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