Anthony A. Goodman is an Adjunct Professor of Medicine in the Medical Sciences and the Microbiology departments at Montana State University in the United States. He was a general surgeon for nearly thirty years, specializing in the surgical treatment of cancer. He is also a lecturer for The Teaching Company, and a historical novelist.
Goodman currently divides his time between teaching surgical anatomy at the medical school, The Biology of Human Cancer to undergraduates in microbiology and writing historical fiction. He is currently researching and writing the sequel to The Shadow of God, which follows the Knights of St. John to their new home on the island of Malta, and the rise of the Ottoman Empire to its apogee under Suleiman the Magnificent through its ultimate decline and fall under the reign of his heirs
Anthony A. Goodman is an Adjunct Professor of Medicine in the Medical Sciences and the Microbiology departments at Montana State University in the United States. He was a general surgeon for nearly thirty years, specializing in the surgical treatment of cancer. He is also a lecturer for The Teaching Company, and a historical novelist.
Goodman currently divides his time between teaching surgical anatomy at the medical school, The Biology of Human Cancer to undergraduates in microbiology and writing historical fiction. He is currently researching and writing the sequel to The Shadow of God, which follows the Knights of St. John to their new home on the island of Malta, and the rise of the Ottoman Empire to its apogee under Suleiman the Magnificent through its ultimate decline and fall under the reign of his heirs
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