Author: Dan

Tattoo – The Film

Amazing as it might seem, Viacom recently bought the film rights to my book, A Tattoo on my Brain: A Neurologist’s Personal Battle against Alzheimer’s Disease. Production of a planned 40-minute documentary is already underway....

Running on a field of dreams

I love baseball.  I was never any good at it myself.  I have memories of watching in shame as the ball rolled between my legs in left field. Later, when the pitchers started throwing breaking balls,...

Sickening

John Abramson’s new book Sickening is in my opinion the best book written to date about the malignant influence of the pharmaceutical industry on American health care. Dr. Abramson is a Harvard professor who studies and...

The magic of a solar eclipse

On August 21, 2017 I witnessed my first and likely my last solar eclipse. Of course, I had read about the mystical power of totality.  I came across it for the first time when I...