Past Imperfect
A personal history of an adventuresome lifetime in and around medicine
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"If Moser had not lived the life he sets down in this memoir, he would have had a hard time inventing it. As fiction, it would seem too picaresque, too filled with wonderful adventure, harrowing moments, travel, romance, eccentric, intellectual challenges, and all the rewards and hardships of an extraordinary life in medicine. But Moser has lived it and his art as a writer keeps pace with his animated life as a doctor. The result is a book that takes a reader into the heart of medicine, and into the heart of this fascinating man This is a lofty book, by a man who has dared to climb to the heights of life, and now writes of what there is to see."
- Paul Trachtman
Former Science Editor
Smithsonian Magazine
About the Author
Robert Moser is a retired internist-cardiologist with an eclectic career background. He had a medical military career, culminating as Chief of Medicine at Walter Reed. He was a practicing internist, editor of JAMA, and CEO of the American College of Physicians. He has published extensively in the medical literature and written newspaper and magazine columns.