I grew up and practiced surgery in the Pacific Northwest, having gone to college and med school on the East Coast. I began writing after I (mostly) retired, when, for the first time in a few decades, I had the time to do it. My book, Cutting Remarks; Insights and Recollections of a surgeon began as a way to recall and reflect on having become a surgeon. It evolved into something more: a book aimed at the lay reader with the goal of entertaining and enlightening, bringing the reader into the operating room in ways not previously done by surgeon-writers. Demystifying. I made it deliberately graphic in parts, softened with humor and reflection. Based on comments from readers, I can say -- modestly, humbly, and not without a modicum of self-delusion? -- that I seem to have achieved the aim.

I was in the USAF medical corps and spent a year in Vietnam, stationed at Danang, known to us as "rocket city." One of the better aimed rockets led to my getting a Purple Heart.

I've managed to stay married for 35 years, and to have helped in the production of a son, long since flown from the coop.

I patiently await writing honors.

Surgeonsblog
My blog is, in a way, an extension of my book: it's aim is to entertain and to inform the reader about the life of a surgeon. It's getting several hundred visits per day, and -- based on comments posted -- people enjoy it. Give it at try!

Link to the book at North Atlantic Books