About Michael H Plumer MD LLC - More Than 50 Years in Medicine

My medical journey has covered more than 50 years since that first autumn day in medical school at the University of Chicago. I’ve crossed the country and traversed the West Coast gathering experience.

I’ve worked in medical schools, hospitals, operating rooms, obstetric suites, laboratories, offices, clinics, hospices, and homes. I’m board certified in anesthesiology, and as a hospice medical director.

I helped lead a decades-long effort to improve obstetric anesthesia care in the West. I led departments or sections in six hospitals, medical schools in three states, and I was especially pleased to receive residency "Best Teacher" awards in three medical schools. I completed a graduate degree in business and a year of graduate certification in healthcare ethics.

I took a year off twenty-three years ago to deal with my own patient experience of prostate cancer, and I interviewed 100 people around the country so I could write a book about their experience of prostate cancer. Throughout this time, I’ve lived my medical school’s exhortation that medical education should be merely the start of a lifetime of education – reading, learning, and writing are always part of a doctor’s life.