William H Adams MD

William H. Adams, MD., FACP, DCMT (London), now retired after forty years of medical practice primarily at large municipal hospitals in New York City and Boston, began his inquiry into what constitutes a proper medical practice because of unsatisfactory features of modern medicine. As an internist with the subspecialty of hematology and with clinical credentials in tropical medicine, his efforts began with the translation of Hippocratic medical treatises most closely aligned with internal medicine. But, as he reviewed ancient medical practices around the world, sociopolitical patterns affecting medical practice emerged that extended the breadth of his studies. The warning they provide is the stimulus for his book.