Napoleon's Penis
Plus Other Engaging and Outrageous Tales
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Words can kill as surely as an assassin's bullet. A physician's callous uterance in talking to a frightened patient can turn into an act of verbal homicide. Such is the story of a brief exchange betwen my grandfather, Harry Bierman, and a physician in the dimly lit coreridors of the physician''s office some time in January 1937
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An engaging series of vignettes reflective of fifty years as a practicing dermatologist specializing on sexually transmitted diseases (STD), incorporating the author's views on the sexual revolution of the 1960s, AIDS, death, melancholy, racism, legal aspects of STDs and focusing on the author's world travels
About the Author
The author is a Century City dermatologist with fifty years of busy medical practice who has drawn from events in his clinical experience that are poignant, enlightening, controversial and hopefully educational to the reader. Doctor Bierman's publishing career dates to the 1980s when he wrote "The World's Greatest Stamp Collectors" and "More of the World's Greatest Stamp Collectors". An enthusiastic bibliophile, he is acknowledged to possess the greatest library in private hands devoted to the history of philately consisting of ten thousand books and pamphlets. Doctor Bierman has videotaped a total of nineteen interviews that he has obtained from major dealers and collectors that he has donated to the Smithsonian Institute. An enthusiastic world traveler, Doctor Bierman also possesses an extraordinary collection of Judaica and ancient maps from the holy land (dating to 1493) from his travels. He relaxes after work in his quiet Japanese garden watching his koi fish and drinks fine wine.