When Dr. Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, recalls his college summers working construction jobs around New York City, one memory stands out crystal clear: It was the summer before the start of medical school and he was on the team that built the Samuel J. Wood Library at Weill Cornell Medicine.
While on his lunch break, Dr. Fauci entered the building, looked down from the top of the library stairs and said to himself, “Oh my...