My two brothers were surgeons.  Most people are familiar with Dr. Levi Watkins, Jr., because he was the renowned heart surgeon who co-developed and implanted the first automatic defibrillator in a human patient at Johns Hopkins University Medical Center in 1980. This article tells the remarkable and more impressive story of Dr. James A. Watkins, who, along with his friend Dr. Robert D. Vaughn, Jr., started and grew one of the most successful surgical practices in Charlotte,