The son of Richard Tucker. Dr. David N. Tucker is a retired ophthalmolo- gist with degrees from Tufts University and the Cornell University Medical College. After an internship at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, he was acommissioned officer in the U.S. Public Health Service at the National Institutes of Health, doing re- search in infectious diseases during the Vietnam War. As chief resident under Dr. Edward Norton at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Miami, he accepted a one-year fellowship with the eminent Colombian microsur- geon Dr. José Barraquer and with other prestigious ophthalmic surgeons in Europe. For over thirty years, Dr. Tucker was in private practice in Cincinnati and was the director of the Department of Ophthalmology at Cincinnati Jewish Hospital for twen- ty-seven years. After retiring in 2004, he taught part time as a clinical assistant pro- fessor of ophthalmology at the NYU School of Medicine. He is co-author of thebook: The Hard Bargain: Music, Medicine, and My Father (Richard Tucker, Opera Legend). The Hard Bargain describes in vivid detail and elegant prose the clash of wills between a famous father and his hard-driving middle son. Richard Tucker, the Ameri- can superstar tenor from the golden age of theMetropolitan Opera, demanded that his son become a surgeon. Rejecting his fathers wishes, David wanted to follow his father onto the opera stage.