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EW IN OTHER NEWS 148 October 2014 by Ellen Stodola EyeWorld Staff Writer city growing up, he became accus- tomed to people stopping them on the street to thank his father for saving their life or the life of a loved one. "These kinds of things showed me how gratifying it could be to be a doctor," Dr. Lam said. of thousands of Americans served in China or that 15 to 20 million Chinese died in the war," he said. Although he was passionate about history, Dr. Lam knew that he wanted to be a doctor because of his desire to help people. This stemmed partly from the fact that his father was a cardiologist, and in his small Dr. Lam's books focus on ophthalmology and history topics O riginally from Springfield, Ill., Andrew Lam, MD, a partner at New England Retina Consultants, Springfield, Mass., and assistant professor of ophthalmology at Tufts University School of Medi- cine, Boston, attended Yale Universi- ty, where he studied military history with a focus on U.S. and East Asian relations. Dr. Lam was fascinated by everything he learned about World War II in China, and he became frus- trated that not many people seemed to know what had happened there. "A lot of Americans know about the war in Europe and the war in the Pacific, but not a lot know that tens Ophthalmologist sees success with 2 books Andrew Lam, MD Source: Andrew Lam, MD "My goal as a writer is to try to fin lesser-known aspects of history or episodes in history that deserve to be better known and try to make them accessible to people by writing about them in a way that would be interesting to them." –Andrew Lam, MD