Publisher's Synopsis
This book is a humorous and thought-provoking read about a very interesting character. It consists of a series of interviews between the author (Freeman) and the subject (also Freeman), detailing his adventures growing up in Marin County, CA and tooling around in vintage Cadillacs and Hupmobiles, to sailing to Tahiti on a 137-foot schooner, to accelerating his way thru college (graduation before his high school classmates), and thence through medical school at McGill and graduate school at MIT. During his academic career he won a bunch of awards and describes his interactions with numerous Nobel Prize winners. He describes his adventures in the Air Force flying about in F100s, being given an award by President Kennedy, and cross-country running with Kenneth Cooper (who started Aerobics), and then sailing across the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans with his friend, Commodore Tompkins, as well as starting Nashville's first high tech company and climbing in the High Sierras. This is followed by his adventures as a psychiatrist (and how best to deal with depression, anxiety and obesity) and his take on how the practice of medicine might be improved. He describes writing and recording music with his son Russ Freeman (of the Rippingtons jazz group), and concludes with a selection of hilarious off-color poetry and philosophical essays about God, and what's wrong with society and how it might be fixed, as well as some interactions with some of his numerous social-media followers. It should be of interest to scientists, physicians, historians, philosophers, olive growers, stone carvers, emu farmers, dog-lovers, classical music composers, astrophysicists, archery buffs, and electronics hobbyists who may or may not live in the San Juan Islands.
