I am an author and freelance writer specializing in health care. I write a column on health care from a patient's point-of-view for MedPageHealth.com, focusing largely on low-risk prostate cancer. I write regularly for the Science and Society section at European Molecular Biology Reports.After nearly 27 years as a high tech and medical writer at the Chicago Sun-Times, I left with a buyout on January 25, 2008.I joined the Sun-Times as a medical writer and worked in the news and features departments and also developed a special section, MedLife. I wrote breaking news and features about socioeconomic and research developments affecting the metropolitan Chicago area and the nation.I also covered tech for the Sun-Times. My beat included Motorola, Microsoft and other major tech companies. I interviewed the likes of Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Steve Case.I also freelanced for the major pubs during the internet boom, including Industry Standard.Before joining the Sun-Times, I was an associate editor at American Medical News, the AMA's weekly, covering hospitals and reform of the Canadian health-care system. I also worked as a health writer for Florida Today, The St. Petersburg Times and The Kankakee Journal.Specialties: I am interested in freelancing in high tech, medicine and genetics. This can be with traditional or new media, blogs, websites, speeches, white papers.I've freelanced for medical publications, consumer as well as professional and trade, including EMBO Reports, the Annals of Internal Medicine and The Lancet. I've also freelanced for The Industry Standard, Wired, WebMD and OnHealth.com.In 2001, I co-authored, with my wife Judi, Healthcare Online For Dummies. I am finishing a new book about a character known as Sore Throat who infilitrated the AMA.