Jul 24, 2009 · A white doctor misdiagnosed the injury as psychosomatic after Gates told him he wanted to become a doctor, Gates wrote in a New York Times article, "About Men: A Giant Step," in 1990.

At 14, Gates was injured while playing touch football, fracturing his hip's ball and socket joint, resulting in a slipped epiphysis. The injury was misdiagnosed, and when the physical damage finally healed, …

At the age of 14, Gates was injured playing touch football, fracturing the ball and socket joint of his right hip, resulting in a slipped capital femoral epiphysis. The injury was misdiagnosed by a physician, who …

While playing touch football at the age of 14, Henry was injured, fracturing the ball and socket joint in his hip. The doctor misdiagnosed, calling it psychosomatic instead, so that when the physical damage …

When Gates was just 14 years old, he sustained a debilitating injury while playing touch football. The accident resulted in a fracture to his hip’s ball and socket joint, causing a slipped epiphysis.

Jul 24, 2009 · Please take a good look at Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. He is 5-foot-7, weighs 150 pounds, wears glasses and uses a cane. His legs are of unequal length, his mustache and goatee are gray.

May 29, 2018 · In 1964, when Henry Louis Gates Jr. was 14 years old, he suffered a hairline fracture of the ball-and-socket joint of the hip while playing touch football in his hometown of Piedmont, West …

Right leg is two inches shorter than his left, stemming from a misdiagnosed childhood sports injury, hence his nickname "Skip." In 1983, Gates rediscovered the first book published in America by a …

The injury was misdiagnosed by a physician who told Gates' mother that his problem was psychosomatic. When the physical damage finally healed, his right leg was two inches shorter than …

As a result of the injury, he developed a condition known as slipped epiphysis and a right leg two inches shorter than his left. He wore an elevated shoe and used a cane to walk. (In 2001, his hip joint was …