ABOUT THE AUTHOR

David Drum is a medical journalist based in Los Angeles. He is the author of several nonfiction trade books in the health area, and more than one thousand magazine articles and other works of writing.
David Drum’s health books are useful and well-organized. All use an honest, educational, common sense approach. Books such as Alternative Therapies for Managing Diabetes are known for their well-researched content and for their presentation of factual information in an empathetic, patient-centered, compassionate tone of voice.
David Drum has been a newspaper reporter, a teacher, an advertising copywriter, and a contributing editor and correspondent for newspapers, trade magazines and wire services. He has been working as an independent journalist and author since 1978.
In addition to Alternative Therapies for Managing Diabetes, books written or co-written by David Drum include:
-- The Type 2 Diabetes Sourcebook, 3rd Edition, McGraw-Hill, 2006, co-written with Terry Zierenberg, RN, CDE
--What Your Doctor Might Not Tell You About Uterine Fibroids, Warnerbooks, 2003, co-written with Scott Goodwin, MD, and Michael Broder, MD
--Failure to Atone: Memoirs of a Jungle Surgeon in Vietnam, 2006, by Allen Hassan, MD, JD, DVM, as told to David Drum
--The Ghosts of War: A Medical Doctor’s Guide to Service-Related Disability Letters that Work, 2010, by Allen Hassan, MD, JD, DVM, and David Drum
--The Chronic Pain Management Sourcebook, Lowell House/Contemporary Books, 1999. Ebook Burning Books Press 2011.
--Making the Chemotherapy Decision, Lowell House/Contemporary Books, 2000. Ebook Burning Books Press 2011.
Magazine and newspaper articles by David Drum have appeared in Men’s Health, People, USA Today, California Business, Los Angeles Times Magazine, and The San Francisco Chronicle. He is also the author of the comic novel, Introducing the Richest Family in America, and one book of poetry.
David Drum received an MFA from the University of Iowa's Writers Workshop, a BA from the University of California at Riverside, and an AA from Brevard College. Graduate study in business, education, and art.
Photograph by Allan Dean Walker
David Drum’s health books are useful and well-organized. All use an honest, educational, common sense approach. Books such as Alternative Therapies for Managing Diabetes are known for their well-researched content and for their presentation of factual information in an empathetic, patient-centered, compassionate tone of voice.
David Drum has been a newspaper reporter, a teacher, an advertising copywriter, and a contributing editor and correspondent for newspapers, trade magazines and wire services. He has been working as an independent journalist and author since 1978.
In addition to Alternative Therapies for Managing Diabetes, books written or co-written by David Drum include:
-- The Type 2 Diabetes Sourcebook, 3rd Edition, McGraw-Hill, 2006, co-written with Terry Zierenberg, RN, CDE
--What Your Doctor Might Not Tell You About Uterine Fibroids, Warnerbooks, 2003, co-written with Scott Goodwin, MD, and Michael Broder, MD
--Failure to Atone: Memoirs of a Jungle Surgeon in Vietnam, 2006, by Allen Hassan, MD, JD, DVM, as told to David Drum
--The Ghosts of War: A Medical Doctor’s Guide to Service-Related Disability Letters that Work, 2010, by Allen Hassan, MD, JD, DVM, and David Drum
--The Chronic Pain Management Sourcebook, Lowell House/Contemporary Books, 1999. Ebook Burning Books Press 2011.
--Making the Chemotherapy Decision, Lowell House/Contemporary Books, 2000. Ebook Burning Books Press 2011.
Magazine and newspaper articles by David Drum have appeared in Men’s Health, People, USA Today, California Business, Los Angeles Times Magazine, and The San Francisco Chronicle. He is also the author of the comic novel, Introducing the Richest Family in America, and one book of poetry.
David Drum received an MFA from the University of Iowa's Writers Workshop, a BA from the University of California at Riverside, and an AA from Brevard College. Graduate study in business, education, and art.
Photograph by Allan Dean Walker