Dr dean edell biography of donald
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Home Was a Parking Lot : Dropout Hippie Doctor Now Prescribes for TV
SACRAMENTO — America’s fastest up-and-coming media doctor says when he lived in Sacramento a few years ago, “home” was a theater parking lot that had all the necessities--a faucet with cold water--for personal hygiene.
“I actually lived in the Tower Theatre parking lot,” Dr. Dean Edell said, recalling the days in the 1970s when he gave up a San Diego medical practice, grew waist-length hair, drove a microbus and lived a life of hippiedom.
“We used to hook up a hose to a water faucet on the outside of the building so we could take showers at night.
“I had left medicine,” Edell said, “and had a jewelry and antique shop in the Tower Theatre. I was a jewelry maker then, but I didn’t sell much of anything. It was a rough location--not a lot of foot traffic.”
On 150 Stations
Needless to say, a lot has transpired between the times of parking-lot showers and now.
These days Edell is in more than 150 radio and television markets in North America. From the KGO studios in San Francisco, he offers advice on a syndicated television show entitled “Dr. Edell’s Medical Journal” and on a consortium of radio stations daily.
And now, with an annual income of around $400,000, according to industry insiders, he’
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Eat, Drink & Be Merry
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Dean Edell
American physician and broadcaster
Dean Edell (born March 26, 1941) is an American physician and broadcaster who hosted the Dr. Dean Edell radio program, a syndicated radio talk show which aired live from 1979 until December 10, 2010. He was also nationally syndicated in television as a medical news reporter and host of his own television shows including NBC's Dr. Dean.
Life and education
[edit]Dean Edell was born in Newark, New Jersey on March 26, 1941.[1] His father was a vitamin manufacturer in the 1940s and 1950s. Edell studied zoology at Cornell University and earned his M.D. from Cornell University Medical School in 1967. He later opened a private ophthalmology practice in San Diego, California, and was an instructor of anatomy and a clinical instructor at the University of California, San Diego. Edell quit medical practice altogether in 1973. He later said that he "... didn't like medicine originally...I kind of found the thing I love the most, which is really the information and communicating the information".[2]
He spent the next several years experimenting with lifestyles that included buying and selling antiques, working as a silversmith and goldsmith,[3]organic farming, painting, living in a 1950s-vinta