M. Colin Jordan

Colin Jordan is a physician and scientist (internal medicine and infectious diseases) in Portland, OR. He served as chief of infectious diseases for twenty two years at the University of Minnesota Hospitals and Clinics and at Oregon Health & Science University. He has an international reputation in his field of virus research, especially the herpes viruses, and he was co-author of two textbooks of infectious diseases. His book "Briefings from a Doctor's Foxhole" shows us how practicing medicine is war at times, war against the unfathomable, incompetence, greed, or the next random injustice. To survive and benefit from the "tincture of time," a doctor needs a foxhole. Soon, his best medicine depends more on how well he flies by the seat of his pants than on any wisdom he can muster. The reader may never see his or her physician in quite the same way again.