Dave Davis writer
An imploding universe. A precocious teenager’s death. A reporter and his girl friend tracking an ancient Mayan secret. And it’s only Monday morning.
Kidnapped and murdered doctors, graduates of a special medical school class. An ancient race, still very much with us. A quest to find the secret to longevity.
In the heart of the Warsaw Ghetto, at the peak of Nazi cruelty, a handful of physicians established a fully-functioning medical school, educating nearly 500 students.
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A cardiologist would look at the signature and say “this guy’s in trouble.”
A cardiologist would look at the signature and say “this guy’s in trouble.”
On January 27th each year, a streetcar makes its way around Warsaw, the Polish capital.
It was like a scene out of Poe’s “The Telltale Heart.” The ringing seemed to come from a pile of boxes stashed at the front door of our place in Washington, D.C.
There are rashes of it cooking in the morning, and the smell fills the little parking lot of the church where I spend my Saturday mornings. Yes, it’s definitely the bacon.
- Husband, father, grandfather (best deal of all)
- Writer
- Retired family doc
- Professor Emeritus, Family & Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
- Adjunct Professor, Medical Education, Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine & Health Sciences, Dubai, UAE
- Senior Global Advisor, AXDEV, Montreal, Quebec.
Dave was a family physician in Ontario, Canada for nearly forty years, from 1970-2008. For much of that time, he was active in continuing education at Joseph Brant Hospital in Burlington, Ontario; responsible for continuing education at McMaster University’s innovative Faculty of Health Sciences; associate dean, continuing education, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto; and chairman of Ontario’s Guidelines Advisory Committee. In 2008, Dave became a senior leader at the Association of American Medical Colleges, in Washington, DC. From 2016 to 2019, he shifted his focus to Dubai and a new institution, Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine & Health Sciences.
In the field of medical education, he’s published over 200 peer-reviewed papers, abstracts, book chapters, and three major books on continuing education.
It’s his non-medical writing however that is featured on this website and which has occupied his thinking for the last decade. In a kinda-retirement, Dave’s rediscovered a love of creative writing, publishing commentaries in the Hamilton Spectator and a novel, “ A Potter’s Tale ,” available everywhere on Amazon. His former patients, renamed, altered and unrecognizable, figure prominently in his essays and writing. His second novel, “The Last Immortal,” the next in the Noah series, was published in 2021 by Story Merchant Books, Los Angeles. Much of it is situated in the miracle city of Dubai, a product of his time there.
His Spectator ‘career’ is actually six decades years old. His very earliest writing was as a Westdale High School reporter, back in “the day.”
Last – definitely not least – Dave is the proud father of two, and an even prouder grandpa to two active boys. He and Maureen have been married for over fifty years (they were both eleven). Dave has divided his time among several cities – Hamilton and Toronto, Ontario, Washington DC, Fort Myers Beach, Florida and Dubai, the City of the Future. He and Maureen currently live in Dundas, a perfect little town masquerading as a suburb of Hamilton.
Want to read about how Dave came to write A Potter’s Tale? Check out The Hamilton Spectator’s piece about him and the 50-year journey the novel took.