Born in Utah and raised in California since age four, David L. Wood attended Berkeley public schools and the University of California at Berkeley before earning his degree of Doctor of Medicine at the University of Southern California. General surgery and plastic surgery residencies preceded his successful thirty-two years of private plastic surgery practice in Long Beach, California. Dr. Wood’s interest in and study of economics since his UC Berkeley years, gave him the background to write his first book on the medical and economic effects of Medicare, Who Will Take Care Of Me When I Am Sick?. Experiences in Eastern and Western Europesince 1950 have provided added knowledge to prepare this second book, which compares the competing societal systems: Capitalism and Socialism.
