The Author
 | Raised in construction camps, the author traveled extensively at a young age. After graduating from medical school and training as a hematologist and oncologist, he lived mostly in the west and now considers the Northwest as his spiritual home. For eight years, he worked at the Presidio of San Francisco in the Letterman Army Research Institute with other scientists trying to develop a blood substitute. He developed a love for science and an admiration for those dedicated to research. It was there that an enthusiastic colleague stimulated a long lost interest in novels. Deep down, another feeling started to stir: creative writing. Most, if not all, humans have interesting stories to tell. Often patients and friends commented about writing them down but never did. He vowed he would…someday. However, over the next twenty years, medicine consumed most of his time. It wasn’t until he cut back his hours that the urge to write returned. His first novel, Unwanted Inheritance, was written as an amalgam of his oncology experience. This story was the stirring emotional experience of three generations with a propensity to develop cancers. Although he was an oncologist, he’d never had cancer and often wondered what patients really experienced. |
These were feelings he could not imagine and felt that writing about a whole family would give him a better understanding. It did. With the first novel, there came awe for professional writers: it wasn’t as easy as it seemed. With a new appreciation, he tackled his second novel, The Broken Parachute Man. In this story, he wanted to address a theme he understood: greed. All through his professional medical career, pharmaceutical and traditional medicine issues seemed at odds when they could be working together. Greed seemed to be the major obstacle, although the interaction is complex. Not that the author has any firsthand experience (in pharmacology, not greed), but he attempts, in this novel, to look behind the scenes at what might motivate the drug industry. |