Barry Friedman - The Old Folks At Home: Warehouse Them or Leave Them on the Ice Floe (14 page)

Barry Friedman
graduated from
Lafayette
College
in
Easton
,
PA
and received his M.D. degree at
N.Y.U.
School
of Medicine. He interned at
Mount Sinai
Medical
Center
in
Cleveland
. During World War II he served in the Naval Medical Corps. He began his career in Orthopaedic Surgery at
Great Lakes
Naval
Hospital
and completed his orthopaedic training at University of Iowa Hospitals. For 30 years, he practiced his specialty in
Cleveland
where he became Chairman of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at
Mount Sinai
Medical
Center
, and Associate Clinical Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery,
Case
Western Reserve
University
. Following his retirement, he moved to
San Diego
where he became a consultant and Associate Clinical Professor of Orthopaedics at
UCSD
Hospital
. He fully retired from medicine in 1999.

Friedman began writing while in college, where he served on the editorial boards of all the student publications. While in medical practice, he published numerous scientific papers. Since his retirement, he has contributed magazine and newspaper articles, and has previously published eight novels and two non-fiction works. Two of the novels were given awards presented by the San Diego Book Awards Committee. Friedman and his wife live in
San Diego
.