TAMPA, Fla., June 22, 2004 (PRIMEZONE) -- Your most common concerns and questions about health and medicine are answered in a new book written by a practicing physician, Dr. David P. Kalin, M.D., M.P.H., who dispenses advice and knowledge about health and medicine about which we should all know. His book entitled What's Up, Doc? is a series of essays written in an easy-to-understand and down-to-earth manner.
What's Up, Doc? is like a visit to your family physician. In his essays, Dr. Kalin uses his 25 years of medical experience to answer questions about many common health and medical topics, such as allergies, cholesterol, cancer, sexually transmitted diseases, and birth control. The author also shares his honest opinion on issues confronting the medical world such as high malpractice insurance and the future of medicine. Readers will simultaneously be guided and entertained by Dr. Kalin's straightforward and objective discussion written with a twist of philosophical humor.
Dr. Kalin uses descriptive analogies easily understood by the layman and complements his essays with illustrations; his book should be part of every household.
About the Author
Dr. David P. Kalin, M.D., M.P.H., a family doctor with a background in emergency medicine, specializing in disability evaluation, graduated from Northwestern University and the University of Illinois Schools of Medicine and Public Health and has attended classes at Chicago's Art Institute. Dr. Kalin has been featured on several local television programs and in a column of Tampa Bay Magazine entitled "What's Up, Doc?" as well as in a nationally shown infomercial on the merits of using the Chinese Energy Balls.
For more information about Dr. David P. Kalin, M.D., M.P.H., see drkalin.com.
"This book by Dr. Kalin, the physician, the author, the poet, the artist, is a must read for the wise and those seeking wisdom; you will be entertained, educated and delighted; I encourage my patients to read it," Dr. S. Santo BiFulco, M.D., physical medicine and rehabilitation
What's Up, Doc? by David P. Kalin, M.D., M.P.H.
Publication Date: 5/26/2004
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