Juul trades the bow for the scalpel

From Clute to Nykøbing Juul, whose name sounds like “yule” rather than “jewel,” was born in 1980 in Clute, Tx., a small town near Houston. His mother, Julie, was the daughter of an honorary consulate to Denmark whose job included throwing parties for Danes living abroad. His father, Peter, was a Dane living abroad, working in the Houston mill industry for his apprenticeship to a mercantile company. The two met at one of these parties. “It was interesting growing up in Texas with a father who wa