Scott Eveloff MD

Scott Eveloff MD is a practicing Sleep Disorders, Critical Care, and Pulmonary physician, serving the far-flung environs of rural Missouri while publishing his perspectives on medical ethics and physician behavior. His professional life and his publishing career have both been shaped by his youngest son, who passed away after an extraordinary twenty-four years of coping with and rising above the turmoil and frustrations of severe physical disability. His remarkable experiences on both sides of the white coat have been picked up by media as far away as England.

Dr. Eveloff is the Overland Park, Kansas-based author of three books: a supernatural medical thriller, Do Not Resuscitate; a work of supernatural historical fiction entitled The Golem's Holocaust; and a non-fiction book of medical parental empowerment, Both Sides of the White Coat.

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Plumbing the eeriness of life-and-death reality inherent in my medical practice has motivated my love of writing and publishing in both fiction and nonfiction genres. Thirty years of managing both failed and successful resuscitations, and confronting serious emotional and medical difficulties, became ironically personal when my son was born with life-threatening muscular dystrophy.

The authority for my non-fiction writing has been shaped in both academia and practice. I was an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Brown University, undertaking and publishing extensive research, before moving into thirty years of private practice. Such a background has allowed my insider knowledge and parental connection to offer hope and empowerment to others in similar situation.

My fiction has been a personal therapeutic outlet in the face of my son's twenty-four years of struggle and the grief lingering after his passing. In homage to his constant joy of life and his ability to rise above the physical restraints of his disability, all my books, editorials, and viewpoints advocate for the dignity and value of the disabled community.

Separate from such a motivational background is my belief in something that must exist beyond the boundaries of what we can see and experience. Such a belief has spurred the supernatural aspect running through my writing. That, and my dedication to seeking triumph and justice for the underdog, generated my supernatural historical fiction novel, which also draws on my Jewish upbringing.

I am the author of three books: a supernatural medical thriller, Do Not Resuscitate; a work of supernatural historical fiction entitled The Golem's Holocaust; and a non-fiction book of medical parental empowerment, Both Sides of the White Coat. I have also authored two short stories: 1992's flash fiction work The Prisoner (American Journal of Medicine) and 1998's Just Desserts (Expressions, Spring/Summer 1998), winner of the literary magazine's Short Story Award. I have also written numerous medical-related editorials. I live in Overland Park, Kansas.

      

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