Michael Appleton

Michael Appleton is a Hospice and Palliative care internist, retired from active practice at age eighty. He is a founding member of the Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. He lives in Clearwater, Florida, with his wife, Anna, and continues to teach end-of-life care to physicians in training. His hobbies are playing acoustic jazz bass and drawing funny pictures and greeting cards. Michael and Anna have two cats who do not get along and who do enjoy looking out the windows onto Tampa Bay where they can view all of the birds.