William Stuart Gould M.D.

Dr. Bill Gould graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1981, then settled with his family in the Seattle area. He has practiced there since.

Earlier in his life, he received an undergraduate degree in engineering from Penn State, where he played varsity football and completed the Army R.O.T.C Flight Program. In 1967, he was designated a Distinguished Military Graduate and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the United States Army.

On Active Duty, after he completed the U.S. Army Ranger School, he served as a captain in the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment in Viet Nam. He was awarded the Purple Heart and a Bronze Star.

After leaving the service, he earned graduate degrees from Harvard and Cambridge Universities in Chinese and Vietnamese language and Asian Studies. In 1975 and 1976, he served as the American Friends Service Committee’s project director in Asia, tasked with delivering humanitarian aid to refugees of the war in Viet Nam and Laos.

In 1985, he served for nearly half-a-year as a volunteer physician in a major African famine, both on the Ethiopian border and in western Sudan’s Darfur Province.

He has also returned to Viet Nam six times as a medical volunteer, drawn back by his respect and fondness for the Vietnamese people. In 2013, he had the privilege of teaching medical students at Shan Tou University School of Medicine in Guangdong Province, China.

He has certificates in both fixed wing and helicopter aircraft, continues to fly regularly, and was recently presented with the Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award for 50 years of accident/incident-free flying.

He has authored nine novels, with a tenth in preparation. In addition, he has published numerous journal articles, including essays in JAMA–The Journal of the American Medical Association, Medical Economics, Consultant, ARMY Magazine, and The Pennsylvania Gazette. His novels speak of love and war and medicine, and the struggle each one of us faces as we search for meaning in our lives.

He lives with his wife, Marlene, deep in the Cascade Mountains of Washington State. Marlene was an English teacher with forty years of public-school service. Bill continues to write, advise patients facing complicated medical challenges, fly, and work on his Mandarin Chinese and Vietnamese language skills.