Before Bob Clark’s weekly lunch begins at the Columbia Restaurant in Ybor City, he decides where everyone will sit at Table 100. He may put a university dean beside a medical executive or place somebody looking for work near a guest who is hiring, then direct another guest toward the person three seats away. Business … Read more

Kal Gullapalli was in eighth grade when he told his mother he wasn’t going to medical school because he had already decided he wanted to become an investment banker, even though nearly every adult in his family practiced medicine. His parents immigrated from India in the early 1970s, recruited by American hospitals during a nationwide … Read more