"I took the Q-44 bus from the Bronx, an hour and a half each way, in order to attend Queens. I wanted to become a physician and was told that Queens was a very fine school. I thoroughly enjoyed my years at QC and it was there that I met my wife, Eva. We have been married for 44 years and have three children and six grandchildren"

When Lawrence Levitt graduated from Queen College in 1961, he was awarded a Jonas Salk Scholarship which made it possible for him to attend Cornell University Medical College. After Cornell, he was an intern and first-year resident at Cornell-Bellevue. He went into the US Public Health Service for two years and then trained in neurology at Brigham Women's Hospital. In 1972, he founded the Neurology Division at Lehigh Valley Hospital in Allentown, PA.

One of Levitt's most unforgettable professors was Banesh Hoffman, who taught him Calculus 1. Hoffman was a distinguished mathematician and physicist who worked with Albert Einstein at Princeton University and wrote The Theory of Relativity for the Layman. He was famous for making complicated things simple, and his example is one of the stimuli that led Levitt to co-author Neurology for the House Officer, a book that proved to be very popular among physicians both in the United States and around the world.

Dr. Levitt coauthored with John E. Castaldo, MD, The Man With The Iron Tattoo — What our patients have taught us about love, faith and healing. This book is “a compilation of thirteen different—yet equally touching—stories that have shaped the authors. These stories, part medical mystery, part human spirit, remind us that doctor-patient relationships extend far beyond hospital walls, and that medical miracles don’t always involve medicine. They highlight the complexities of the human body and the obstacles doctors face each day as they confront medical challenges of all kinds.”