Healing and Spirit: Medicine, Politics, Civilization and the Making of an Extraordinary Physician - Paperback

by Gershon Lesser (Author), Mitchell Harding (Author)

What medicine is like for a deeply caring physician with 30 years of medical experience, in lawyer-ridden, profit-oriented, souless, uncaring America today. For far too long there has been no book like Healing and Spirit; a partial autobiography of courage, love, depth, awareness, intelligence, and healing

Author Biography

Gershon Lesser MD Dr. Lesser, a graduate of UCLA and USC medical school, is an internist and cardiologist, and a founding member of the International Academy of Preventive Medicine. Also an attorney, he has received White House honors for his efforts in bringing preventive medicine to the public. He has practiced medicine in Southern California for over 30 years.

Every Wednesday afternoon for 18 years Dr. Lesser hosted a call-in program on National Public Radio. He has also had scheduled programs on nine commercial radio stations and 10 television stations in Southern California, New Mexico, Hawaii, and Alaska, as well as Canada and South Africa. His programs have been carried from time to time on network radio and television and national cable, as well as being picked up occasionally by hundreds of other radio and television stations around the country. He is the author of other books, including Growing Younger.