I have an undergraduate degree in philosophy from Pitzer College and a medical degree from the University of Nevada Medical School. I work full-time as a primary-care internal medicine specialist with the Cedars-Sinai Medical Group in Marina del Rey, California. My first book, The Insider’s Guide to HMOs, was well received and helped sway the direction health care was heading in the late nineties. While it was a very different kind of book compared to my new novel, it gave me valuable exposure to marketing, and garnered me a short season of fame, including an interview with Matt Lauer on The Today Show, a segment on ABC’s 20/20, an hour-long interview on C-SPAN, and a whirlwind of other appearances on nationally televised shows and radio interviews.
