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Michigan football's Donovan Peoples-Jones was 9 years old when he first visited his father's office at Oak Orthopedics in Bradley, Illinois.

Dr. Eddie Jones, an orthopedic surgeon who specializes in orthopedic trauma, sports medicine and joint replacement, was performing an ankle procedure at his practice’s outpatient surgical center and decided to bring his son along.

Before the trip, Jones gave Peoples-Jones a book titled "Anatomy: A Regional Atlas of the Human Body.