Meet Anthony A. Goodman, MD, FACS
Anthony A. Goodman, MD, FACS, is the author of Great Saves and Terrible Losses: The Journeys of a Surgeon (Pietra Press, 2026).
He earned his bachelor’s degree from Harvard College and his medical degree from Cornell Medical College, and he trained as a surgical intern and resident at the University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor. He completed his surgical training and served as chief resident at the Harvard Surgical Service of Boston City Hospital, New England Deaconess Hospital, the Lahey Clinic, and Cambridge Hospital.
For twenty years, he worked as a general surgeon in South Florida and served as a clinical associate professor of surgery at the University of Miami School of Medicine. In addition, he served as a surgeon with the US Army Medical Corps during the Vietnam War and on Project HOPE’s hospital ship, SS Hope. He was also a visiting professor of surgery at the Christchurch Clinical School of Medicine in New Zealand.
Founder of the Broward Surgical Society, Dr. Goodman is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a diplomate of the National Board of Medical Examiners and the American Board of Surgery.
He was an adjunct professor of medicine in the WWAMI Medical Sciences Program of Montana State University and an affiliate professor in the Department of Biological Structure at the University of Washington School of Medicine.
He has also been a lecturer for the Great Courses, which produces educational video and audio content and whose presenters are selected from the top 1 percent of professors in America. His course titles included “Understanding The Human Body: Anatomy and Physiology,” “The Human Body: How We Fail; How We Heal,” “Lifelong Health: Achieving Optimum Well-Being at Any Age,” and “Myths of Nutrition and Fitness.”
Dr. Goodman is the author of several previous books, including None but the Brave: A Novel of the Surgeons of World War II, The Shadow of God: A Novel of War and Faith (published in four languages worldwide), and Never Say Die: A Doctor and Patient Talk about Breast Cancer.