Dr. Lawrence Hergott is Emeritus Professor of Medicine and Senior Scholar in Creative Writing at the University of Colorado. Before writing, Dr. Hergott was an honored cardiologist for 20 years at Kaiser Permanente in Denver, Colorado. He then spent another 17 years of patient care and writing at the University of Colorado. Dr. Hergott’s poems and essays have been published in a variety of places such as JAMA, The Expository Times at the University of Edinburgh School of Divinity, BBC.com, and Healing the Hearts of Men and Gorillas. Dr. Hergott has a wondrous family as well.