Conquering Your Adversities: From Mafia Controlled Streets to the NFL and Ultimately Becoming a Successful Doctor

DOES IT SEEM LIKE YOUR DREAMS FOR A BETTER LIFE WILL NEVER COME TRUE? Well, Dr. Kenneth Polke knows that feeling. Ken grew up in a tough neighborhood in Cleveland, known as Collinwood and depicted in the true story and recently made movie KILL THE IRISHMAN, in the 1950’s and 1960’s- a neighborhood that would later be known as BOMB CITY, USA because Mafia war bombings and racial riots.

Ken saw people all around him struggling and in some rare instances, dying. He watched his working class parents literally work their fingers to the bone to provide for him and his three siblings. And he watched neighborhood kids turn to a life of crime so they could possess fancy cars and beautiful women.