Alan D Cato M.D.

I am a, recently retired, sixty-three-year-old family physician, whose medical career chronologically spanned the decades that saw an economical and effective healthcare system, under the guidance of local-hospital boards and a proud medical profession, transform itself into today’s pricey, dysfunctional, and commercialized medical industry.

This book was born piece-meal fashion. Initially begun as a self-venting diary, it ultimately evolved into a passionate message for consumers and politicians that my heart needed to deliver. A major part of the message is that poor quality of care and excessive costs are intimately related, and both are ubiquitous in the current healthcare system. Unfortunately, both go entirely unrecognized by consumers. The responsible culprits for this are numerous, and some of their identities are quite surprising. All of them, however, are taken on boldly, if not provocatively, by this work

My educational and professional credentials include: 1969, B.S degree. from Western Kentucky University with double major—Biology and Chemistry. While at Western Kentucky, inducted as charter member into Alpha Epsilon Delta International Premedical Honorary Society. 1973, received M.D. degree from University of Louisville School of Medicine. 1974 completed rotating internship at St Mary’s Hospital in Evansville, IN. Diplomat of National Board of Medical Examiners. Diplomat of American Board of Family Practice. Fellow of American Academy of Family Physicians.