
What Prometheus Teaches a Doctor Turned Stroke Survivor
Bevan ChoateAt 36 years of age, I was a titan. I was a full-fledged urologist. A urologist is a surgical cyborg and the only surgical specialist mentioned in the Hippocratic Oath...
Young Dr. Choate had it made. At thirty-five, he had survived medical school and a long residency and had come into his own as a
legitimate surgeon.
Then, the music stopped.
He had suffered a life-threatening stroke. His self-penned story, ‘The Stroke Artist’,
speaks to all who have at one time or another faced life’s tragedies. From fighting to survive, to negotiating with
an unhinged drug dealer, The Stroke Artist doesn’t disappoint.
Both before and after the stroke that would change my life forever, I have gained immense fulfillment from palette-knife painting. For me, art is the invitation to the subconscious from the conscious mind.