About Me — David Mokotoff

I am a retired MD, avid writer, cook, fisherman, gardener, and recovering political junkie.

I am 72-years old and a retired cardiologist. I was born in New York City, but my family moved to the Catskill mountains when I was four. My father was an internist and country doctor. I recall making house calls with him; his patients sometimes paid via barter, like produce, fish, and venison. These were the days before Medicare, and many folks did not have health insurance. I wanted to become a doctor from a young age, but there was always a creative part of my brain that would make its presence known.

Even as a child, I loved to read and write. I am never without a book, although these days it is electronic. My interests are eclectic and have spanned subjects from health and medicine to fishing, cooking, and travel. There is something wonderful and satisfying about being able to touch others with written words. I hope to inform and entertain the reader. I enjoy dialoguing with people but find much of the communications on social media to be destructive. As a medical doctor, now retired, writing has provided necessary stimulus to the right side of my brain.

I have done book and movie reviews, travel blogs, restaurant reviews, and fishing stories. I have been published in medical journals, travel and outdoor magazines, and published a memoir and short story…