The Three-Legged Stallion - And Other Tales from a Doctor's Notebook

About the author

SIEGFRIED KRA emigrated, with his family, from Danzig, Germany to New York in 1939. He attended CCNY, then went to medical school in France and Switzerland before completing his training at Yale. In his practice as a cardiologist, he has treated tens of thousands of patients. Kra has published over a dozen books, both fiction and non-fiction. In addition to medicine and writing, his passions include opera, growing orchids, and tennis, which he still plays weekly at age eighty-six. He also still teaches as an Associate Professor of Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine and Quinnipiac University Netter School of Medicine. Kra has been an advocate for people, without prejudice for religion, gender, age, race, religion or politics for his entire medical life. He has been interviewed by CNN, ABC & CBS. For eight years, Kra was on NPR every Thursday from 1982 to 1994, He was on The Regis Show, Religious shows like Club 500, The Smithsonian in Washington and more, including lectures at libraries in NY.

Product details

• Authors: Siegfried Kra
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.06.2025
• EAN: 9780393335903
• ISBN: 978-0-393-33590-3
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Medicine: general issues, MEDICAL / General, Biography: general, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, Medicine / Healthcare: general issues / topics