Waking Up in America: How One Doctor Brings Hope to Those Who Need It Most - Hardcover

Izzy Lyman "The Daily Oklahoman" [An] upbeat autobiography which also serves as an expose of the squalid third-world conditions that exist in the United States.

Pedro José Greer Jr., M.D., is the award-winning founder and volunteer medical director of Miami's Camillus Health Concern, a health care clinic for the poor and homeless, which serves more than ten thousand men, women, and children annually. The winner of numerous honors, including a MacArthur Foundation "Genius" grant and the President's Service Award in 1997, Dr. Greer has served as an adviser to both the Bush and the Clinton administrations on health care issues. He holds a diverse number of appointments, ranging from serving as a trustee for the RAND corporation to sitting on the board of directors of Comic Relief. In addition, Dr. Greer is a professor of medicine, a gastroenterologist and hepatologist in private practice, and the former Chief of Gastroenterology at Mercy Hospital, a full-Service hospital in Miami. The son of Cuban immigrants, he grew up in the Caribbean and in Miami.