About the Author

Herman Tarnower, M.D., FACP, D-IM,was a distinguished cardiologist and internist, a founder and senior member of the Scarsdale, New York, Medical Center, and an honorary president and chairman of the board of the Westchester Heart Association. Before his death in 1980, he was a clinical professor of medicine at New York Medical College, attending cardiologist at White Plains Hospital; and consulting cardiologist at St. Agnes Hospital in White Plains, New York.