fellow student from australia robin trethway who would later become his wife. he reversed course and headed back to the u.s. to attend harvard. why did you choose psychiatry. i was looking for something halfway between the reality of medicine and the elegance, if you like, of philosophy. so psychiatry was the obvious thing. it was there that one unexpected moment, a tragic diving accident changed charles 7 life forever. it just hit at precisely the angle where all the force was transmitted to you one spot. and that is the cervical vertebra which severed the spinal cord. when did you realize that the accident was life-altering? the second it happened. despite his permanent paralysis, charles astounded his professors and classmates by graduating on time, near the top of his class. ultimately, he decided the field wasn t for him. a career reversal he voked aboujokedabout on fox years lat.
i m a psychiatrist in remission doing well. i haven t had a relapse in 25 years. in 1978, krauthammer headed to washington, d.c. for a government job. i thought once i m in washington, isn t that where they do politics? one thing will lead to another. robin encouraged him to follow his dreams. and he soon landed at the left leaning new republic magazine, just as the reagan administration took office. so help me god. krauthammer found himself agreeing with the new president and questioning his own feelings about the democratic party. i ended up supporting just about every element of the reagan foreign policy. months after reagan s re-election, krauthammer penned the phrase the reagan doctrine in a provocative time magazine column and the name stuck. he created the reagan doctrine. nobody had heard of it. charles put together a piece and dubbed it and, you know, i have read it many times and it just holds up so well. i think charles discovered then that there really w