Former NICU Patient Graduates Medical School With Hopes Of Becoming NICU Doctor

Marcus Mosley spent the first 40 days of his life in the newborn intensive care unit (NICU) after he was born prematurely at 26 weeks, and now it is all coming full circle as he graduates from medical school.

The 27-year-old has known since he was young that he wanted to become a doctor when he grew up.

When Mosley was 13, his parents took him back to visit the NICU that he was born in at Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, New York. It was there that he met Dr. Edmund LaGamma, the chief of neonatology at Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital at WMC.

Once Mosley was in high school, he would spend his summers shadowing doctors in the NICU, which is what solidified his interest in wanting to go to medical school one day.

He stuck with his dream and has worked hard to make it come true, recently graduating from the CUNY School of Medicine at City College of New York.

He loved his summers spent in the NICU so much that he is now pursuing a residency in pediatrics at New York-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital.

“It was very frightening when he was born and they told me that he was in the NICU,” Mosley’s mother, Pauline, told GMA. “The doctors told me, they just kept giving me all these different percentages of very slim chance of him being normal, like less than 10% chance. They kept saying 90%, he might not be able to see. Eighty to 90%, he would have developmental delays. They didn’t know.”

But despite Mosley’s prognosis from his doctors, he overcame all odds and has grown into an exceptional young man.

Hear more of his inspiring story in the video below:

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