2026年9月25日 美国东部时间晚8:46 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
史蒂夫·哈特曼 撰稿
史蒂夫·哈特曼是哥伦比亚广播公司新闻通讯员，他通过每周获奖的专题栏目《在路上》，为观众带来他偶遇的平凡人物的动人故事。
如果你到访弗吉尼亚州里士满奇彭哈姆医院的急诊室，很有可能会遇到贾斯珀双胞胎中的一位。
特拉万·贾斯珀医生和特拉维斯·贾斯珀医生是奇彭哈姆医院急诊科的联合主任。但他们的故事既独一无二、鼓舞人心，又几乎令人难以置信。
“能走到今天，简直不可思议，”特拉维斯·贾斯珀在接受哥伦比亚广播公司新闻采访时说道，“我想四十年前的自己，根本不敢做这样的梦。”
回到他们在里士满的老社区，这对同卵双胞胎曾是街区里最贫困的孩子之一。
“我们家里没有自来水，”特拉万·贾斯珀说，“我们常去公园取水。我们那时吃不饱，不光是肚子饿，也极度渴望成功——因为对我们来说，这是唯一能摆脱困境的办法。”
但直到中学时期，他们才找到了出路。
双胞胎12岁那年，他们的叔叔因酗酒导致肝功能衰竭，住进了里士满一家现已关停的医院。当时兄弟俩十分害怕，迫切需要得到安慰，但那位医生却态度冷漠，告诉他们叔叔是咎由自取。就在那时，他们立下了誓言。
“我们在走廊里聊起这件事，”特拉万·贾斯珀说道。他们坚信自己能比那位叔叔的医生做得更好。
“我想我们确实做到了，”特拉维斯·贾斯珀补充道。
于是，带着这次经历带来的动力和彼此的扶持，他们以联合致告别词的优秀毕业生身份从高中毕业。他们在斯坦福大学完成本科学业，又在芝加哥大学医学院就读。
他们终于回到了成长的社区，兑现了四十年前许下的诺言。今年4月，两人同时上任急诊科联合主任。他们目前住在同一栋楼里。工作时，他们会穿不同颜色的洗手服，绿色和紫色，这样同事和患者就能区分他们。
这对双胞胎没有被环境打败，反而因逆境收获成功。他们将创伤化为胜利，将无助转化为疗愈。
特拉维斯·贾斯珀说道：“我认为我们经历的一切，那些艰难的日子，造就了如今的我们。”
Identical twin doctors who grew up in poverty returned to their Virginia hometown to co-run an ER
September 25, 2026 8:46 PM EDT / CBS News
By Steve Hartman
Steve Hartman is a CBS News correspondent. He brings viewers moving stories from the unique people he meets in his weekly award-winning feature segment “On the Road.”
If you visit the emergency room at Chippenham Hospital in Richmond, Virginia, there’s a good chance you might meet one of the Jasper twins.
Drs. Travan and Travis Jasper are co-directors of Chippenham’s emergency department. But their story is singular, inspirational and completely improbable.
“To be here, it’s amazing,” Travis Jasper told CBS News. “And I don’t think I could have dreamt it 40-some years ago.”
Back in their old Richmond neighborhood, the identical twins were some of the poorest children on the block.
“We had no running water,” Travan Jasper said. “We used to go and get water from like one of the parks. And we were hungry, hungry literally and hungry for success. Because for us, that was the only way we were going to get out.”
But they didn’t know the path out until middle school.
When the twins were 12, their uncle was hospitalized at a different hospital in Richmond that no longer exists. He was an alcoholic, and his liver was failing. The boys were scared and really needed comfort. But they said the doctor was dismissive and told them their uncle was getting what he deserved. Right then and there they made a vow.
“We talked about it out in the hallway,” Travan Jasper said. They believed they could do better than their uncle’s doctor.
“And I think we have,” Travis Jasper added.
And so, motivated by that experience and the will of each other, they graduated from high school as co-valedictorians. They did their undergraduate work at Stanford and their medical school at the University of Chicago.
They finally returned to the community where they grew up to fulfill the promise they had made 40 years earlier. They both started as co-directors of the ER in April. The two reside in the same building. At work, they wear different colored scrubs, green and purple, so their colleagues and patients can tell them apart.
Somehow, instead of being victims of their circumstances, the twins became successful because of them. They turned trauma into triumph and helplessness into healing.
Said Travis Jasper: “I think all of the stuff that we went through, all of the negative days, made us who we are now.”
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