Inside of Dr. Tommy Karam’s office drawer, underneath a desk covered with scribbled-in legal pads and a week’s worth of newspapers, are three DVDs.
One features his mother on her 80th birthday. Another features his favorite saint, Padre Pio.
So it’s in good company he finds the last one, which he originally kept hidden for 20 years, out of respect to its subject. This is private, personal, Dr. Karam had assumed, until one day, Shaquille O’Neal asked him if he ever used the video of his first media training sessions with Dr. Karam as a teaching example.