Bernard MansheimPrior to enrolling in medical school, Bernard Mansheim received a Bachelor's Degree in English Literature. After he completed medical school and post-graduate training, he began his career with academic appointments at Harvard Medical School and the niversity of Florida College of Medicine as an Infectious Disease specialist. He left academic medicine for private practice, then, after ten years began a career in medical management. He spent the last ten years of his medical career as Chief Medical Officer for a national health insurance company. Over four decades he has lectured extensively on various topics, including medical ethics and managed health care, and has served as an expert witness in medical malpractice cases. He received awards from the Florida Medical Association and the Florida Hospital Association for a monthly newspaper column he wrote for a few years. After retiring from his health career he became a health care consultant, has been on the boards of several non-profit organizations, and continues to volunteer as a physician one day a week. Most recently he has begun to pursue his lifelong interest in fiction writing. He published his first novel, A Doctor a Day, in 2017, available on Amazon as a print or e-book. It is the story of a physician who becomes emotionaly overwhelmed after caring for sick and dying patients for many years. The current book is a prequel that chronicles the internship training of the physician protagonist in the first book. These two books are part of a planned series called Everydoctor. So, what does Bernard Mansheim do in his free time? His outside interests have included marathon running, golf and other active sports, traveling with his wife, visitng their three grown children, reading, and studying Italian. He recently co-authored with an Italian friend, a book entitled Todi Walking Tours: Self-guided Tours of an Ancient Italian Hill Town, also available at Amazon. The author lives with his wife and their Havanese puppy Layla, in Charleston, South Carolina and Santa Fe, New Mexico. Read More Read Less