David
Mokotoff went to Case Western Reserve University School
of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio. He did post graduate medical training
at the University of California in San Diego. Excited by the growing
field of cardiology, he did a fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine
and Methodist Hospital, in Houston, Texas, with renowned heart surgeon
Michael Debakey. He has been in the private practice of cardiology
in St. Petersburg, Florida since 1982, where he formed the Bay Area
Heart Center. He is practicing medicine part-time, so he may pursue
his other life passion, writing.
Despite his love of medicine, he has always had a passion for writing.
He has repeatedly had letters to the editor of the St. Petersburg
Times published, and did movie reviews for several years for the
PICOMESO, the monthly magazine of the Pinellas County Medical
Society. He has been published, “When Did I Become
the Bad Guy?” The American Medical News, “Remembering
Earl” JAMA, 2008, and recently had accepted, “Why
I Brought Spirituality to my Practice,” in Integrative
Medicine: A Clinician’s Journal.” He has also
done two on-line travel blogs for Diversion Magazine. He has studied
with four-time Pulitzer-prize nominee author and speaker Fawn Germer,
and attended the 2006 SEAK 7th Annual Medical Fiction Writing for
Physicians Conference in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
He now is semi-retired from his cardiology practice, so that he
can expand his fervor for creative writing. His first novel, Fallible,
is completed and ready for submission. He is currently working on
a memoir, “The Moose’s Daughters,” He
will shortly begin work on a non-fiction book, with another physician,
about the many things consumers do not know about how hospitals
really deliver healthcare, “Not Part of Your Medical Record.” |