title: Trauma, Shame, and the Power of Love: The Fall and Rise of a Physician Who Heals Himself
author:  Christopher E Pelloski MD 
description: CHRISTOPHER E. PELLOSKI earned his medical degree from the Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago in 2001. He was accepted into the Radiation Oncology Residency Training Program and eventually joined the faculty at the University of Texas  MD Anderson Cancer Center, in Houston, one of the top cancer centers in the world. After his recruitment to the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center in 2010, he ran a full clinical practice, supervised his own basic-science research laboratory, and served as his departments Residency Program Director and as the Director of Pediatric Radiation Oncology.
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  Stumbling into Obstacles
  
  
  Hart Medical Center 3
  
  
  Case Weber has been riddled with guilt for his whole adult existence. One act
  changed the course of his life, causing him to believe he didn’t deserve to
  find his happily ever after.
  
  
  Alaric Sutton had always been a bit of an ass. He’d never considered it a
  problem until things at Hart Medical Center started to change. But it wasn’t
  until Case Weber yelled at him that Alaric realized it wasn’t okay for him to
  treat others with disrespect. His only problem? How did he change after all
  this time?
  
  
  Deciding to ask for help, Alaric went to the one person who had stood up to
  him, Case Weber. Who would have thought that one request could transform his
  lonely existence into one with hope and a possible life with an Omega he
  respected?
  
  
  But life has never been that simple. As the Hart Medical Center’s stalker