David Frederick Hepburn is a Canadian author and retired medical doctor. His columns, his book Doctor is In(sane), and his radio show WiseQuack bring plainspoken humor to the practice of medicine.

David Frederick Hepburn was born on August 5, 1958. He trained as a physician and later served as a Canadian naval surgeon during the Persian Gulf War in 1991, an experience that shaped his perspective on medicine and its people.

Retired from practice, he turned that perspective toward writing, producing a book and a body of humor columns that look at the profession from the inside, with candor and affection.

Doctor is In(sane), syndicated columns, and a radio show, all in one voice.

A book of medical humor from a doctor who has seen the profession from every side, written with a sharp eye for its absurdities.

Dubbed the “Dave Barry of medicine” and the “Patch Adams of the podium,” his columns are published simultaneously in Canada and the United States.

His radio show brings the same plainspoken wit to the airwaves, turning medicine into conversation for a broad audience.

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