Richard Barager

By day, I'm a nephrologist, treating dialysis patients and kidney transplant recipients. By night, I write fiction. I believe the two finest callings in life are doctor and writer, one ministering to the human condition, the other illuminating it, each capable of transforming it.

I earned BA and MD degrees at the University of Minnesota and completed postgraduate training at Emory University in Atlanta and the University of California in San Diego. I live in Orange County, CA.

I am a champion of the healing power of literature. Fiction explores meaning in a way science cannot. Sometimes only fiction tells the truth.