About the author
David Drum, the author of Polycystic Liver Disease: Information for Patients, is a medical journalist based in Los Angeles, California. He is the author or co-author of eight nonfiction books in the health and wellness area, and more than one thousand magazine articles and other works of writing.
The author’s health books are useful and well-organized. They utilize an honest, educational, common sense approach and are known for their well-researched content and for their presentation of factual information in an empathetic, patient-centered, compassionate tone of voice.
David Drum has been a newspaper reporter, a teacher, an advertising copywriter, and a contributing editor and correspondent for newspapers, trade magazines and wire services including The San Francisco Chronicle and Dow Jones News Service. He has been working as an independent journalist and author since 1978. In addition to Polycystic Liver Disease: Information for Patients, books written or co-written by David Drum include:
--What Your Doctor Might Not Tell You About Uterine Fibroids, Warnerbooks, 2003, co-written with Scott Goodwin, MD, and Michael Broder, MD
-- The Type 2 Diabetes Sourcebook, 3rd Edition, McGraw-Hill, 2006, co-written with Terry Zierenberg, RN, CDE
--Alternative Therapies for Managing Diabetes, McGraw-Hill, 2000. Revised e-book edition 2011.
--Failure to Atone: Memoirs of a Jungle Surgeon in Vietnam, 2006, Allen Hassan, MD, JD, DVM, as told to David Drum
--The Ghosts of War: A Medical Doctor’s Guide to Service-Related Disability Letters that Work, 2010, by Allen Hassan, MD, JD, and David Drum
--Making the Chemotherapy Decision, 3rd print Edition, Lowell House/Contemporary Books, 2000. 5th Edition e-book 2014.
--The Chronic Pain Management Sourcebook, Lowell House, 1999. Revised e-book edition 2011.
Magazine and newspaper articles by David Drum have appeared in publications including Men’s Health, People, USA Today, California Lawyer, Los Angeles Times Magazine, and The San Francisco Chronicle.
David Drum earned an MFA from the University of Iowa, a BA from the University of California at Riverside, and an AA from Brevard College where he served as student body president.
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Photograph by Allan Dean Walker
The author’s health books are useful and well-organized. They utilize an honest, educational, common sense approach and are known for their well-researched content and for their presentation of factual information in an empathetic, patient-centered, compassionate tone of voice.
David Drum has been a newspaper reporter, a teacher, an advertising copywriter, and a contributing editor and correspondent for newspapers, trade magazines and wire services including The San Francisco Chronicle and Dow Jones News Service. He has been working as an independent journalist and author since 1978. In addition to Polycystic Liver Disease: Information for Patients, books written or co-written by David Drum include:
--What Your Doctor Might Not Tell You About Uterine Fibroids, Warnerbooks, 2003, co-written with Scott Goodwin, MD, and Michael Broder, MD
-- The Type 2 Diabetes Sourcebook, 3rd Edition, McGraw-Hill, 2006, co-written with Terry Zierenberg, RN, CDE
--Alternative Therapies for Managing Diabetes, McGraw-Hill, 2000. Revised e-book edition 2011.
--Failure to Atone: Memoirs of a Jungle Surgeon in Vietnam, 2006, Allen Hassan, MD, JD, DVM, as told to David Drum
--The Ghosts of War: A Medical Doctor’s Guide to Service-Related Disability Letters that Work, 2010, by Allen Hassan, MD, JD, and David Drum
--Making the Chemotherapy Decision, 3rd print Edition, Lowell House/Contemporary Books, 2000. 5th Edition e-book 2014.
--The Chronic Pain Management Sourcebook, Lowell House, 1999. Revised e-book edition 2011.
Magazine and newspaper articles by David Drum have appeared in publications including Men’s Health, People, USA Today, California Lawyer, Los Angeles Times Magazine, and The San Francisco Chronicle.
David Drum earned an MFA from the University of Iowa, a BA from the University of California at Riverside, and an AA from Brevard College where he served as student body president.
To contact the author, CLICK HERE
Photograph by Allan Dean Walker