Dr. Nche Zama is a nationally recognized cardiothoracic surgeon. Although some may say that he has attained the American dream, the road to his success began with tragedy. Dr. Zama was born in Bamenda, a small African village in Cameroon. As a child, he watched his mother die during childbirth. “I was standing there as a little boy holding her hand when she kept telling me she was going to die, because she had given birth to a child. And she started to bleed. The nurse kept crying: ‘There’s no doctor! There’s no doctor!'” Dr. Zama recalled. This tragic event set him on his path. “I wanted to be a doctor because I didn’t want another mother to die needlessly. And I didn’t want a child to lose a mother,” he said. At the age of 14, Dr. Zama came to New York City with only $20 which was given …