Stuart Fischer, M.D.

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About me

Gender Male
Industry Science
Occupation Physician/Author
Location New York, New York, United States
Introduction I'm a physician/author/radio host whose career has included an Internal Medicine residency at Maimonides Medical Center, a four-year stint as an Attending Physician in the emergency room of Cabrini Medical Center, and nine years as an associate of Dr. Robert Atkins. My latest project is "The Park Avenue Diet Show" currently being broadcast on Sunday nights at 10:30 PM on WOR 710 am. All of the broadcasts can be heard on my website www.parkavenuediet.com . I have an extensive history of media appearances including CNN This Morning, CBS: The Early Show, Inside Edition, "Eyewitness News" (ABC), ESPN, Geraldo, Fox and Friends, Montel Williams, Good Day New York, Daily Buzz, Access Hollywood, Better TV, Westwood One etc. and interviews with The New York Times, The Sunday Times of London, W Magazine, The New York Post (including Page Six), USA Today, eHarmony, AOL, Prevention, Star Magazine, Weekly Reader, WebMD, Redbook, Glamour, New York Magazine, and Opera News. I graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in psychology.
Interests The art and science of healing, Theater, International travel.
Favorite Movies Apocalypse Now, All About Eve, Touch of Evil, Grand Illusion, Rebel Without a Cause, Loves of a Blonde, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Something for Everyone, Pandora's Box, Duck Soup, Sons of the Desert
Favorite Music The Ring Cycle (Wagner), Les Troyens (Berlioz), Mahler's Symphony #2, Rachmaninoff's Third Piano Concerto, Spartacus (Khachaturian), Belshazaar's Feast (Walton), Transfigured Night (Schoenberg), The Rolling Stones, The Doors, The Grateful Dead.
Favorite Books War and Peace, Les Miserables, Don Quixote, Ulysses, Ghosts (Ibsen), Mother Courage and Her Children, The Complete Plays of Charles Ludlam, Woyzeck, The Cherry Orchard, Entertaining Mr. Sloane, The Bacchae, Songs of Innocence and Experience (Blake)