When David Schwartz, MD, was finishing college at Stanford, he wasn’t sure what was next.
There was possibly law school, a career in literature or a few other options, but medical school didn’t top the list.
“I had worked as a camp counselor every summer, and then I got an opportunity to be a counselor at Camp Ronald McDonald in Los Angeles, one of the first camps in the U.S. specifically created for kids with cancer,” Dr. Schwartz recalled. “It was a life-changing experience. It was so formative, so emotionally resonant that it placed me on a new path. I wanted to be a cancer doctor.”