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After earning an MD degree at Creighton University School of Medicine, and completing a medical internship, my wife, Alyce, and our first-born child, Geri, joined the Navy. I served as a Submarine Medical Officer. After a two-year stint in the Navy, I added a second year of post-graduate training at the Hunterdon Medical Center in Flemington, NJ. As a solo practitioner in general medicine in Flemington, I cared for pregnant women, their babies, young children, adults, their parents and grandparents. It was a dream come true. The practice grew rapidly and within four years the Flemington Medical Group consisted of four family physicians. The Hunterdon Medical Center became one of the earliest sites for training young doctors in the newly created specialty of Family Medicine. It was an exciting time for general practitioners. I was offered the position of director of the program. It gave me the opportunity to combine my love of patient care with my commitment to teaching young doctors both the science and art of medicine. After several years as Director of Medical Education at Hunterdon, Alyce and I and our by then six children headed south and joined the faculty at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. I participated in the training of medical students and Family Practice residents. For several years I directed the residency training program in the Department of Family Medicine. I took a one-year fellowship in Geriatrics at UCLA Medical Center in their Hartford Scholars program. I'm currently Emeritus Professor of Family Medicine at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. My professional areas of interest and publications include the following: thyroid disease, tick-borne diseases, cognitive impairment and geriatric assessment. Besides writing fiction, I enjoy building furniture, love reading, movies and live theater. I follow national politics closely, play tennis reasonably well, golf poorly, and in my spare time do a little baking. I’ve published two novels, THIS THING CALLED LOVE, a coming of age story of a teenager navigating his first love as he struggles with an alcoholic father and a family that is on the verge of collapse. FORBIDDEN HARVEST is a medical drama about a twelve-year-old boy who desperately needs a heart transplant and the extremes to which his family and physicians are willing to go to get him a new heart. Both novels are available at Amazon.com, Goodreads, Barnes and Noble, and independent book stores.