The Wonderful World of Bernies: An Irish-Italian Adventure in Queens

Written by Bernard M. Patten

Narrated by Gregory V. Diehl

Before he became the world’s foremost expert on Myasthenia Gravis...

Before he had the largest neurology practice in the known Universe...

Before he solved some of the most difficult and often bizarre medical cases ever known...

He was...young Bernie Patten(#1 but really the 3rd), idiot savant(?) and sometimes just an idiot.

Who isn’t when they are growing up?

Chaotic at times - but never boring - life constantly flowed for a boy whose namesakes included his murder solving father(#2 and the 2nd) that would become a famous District Attorney, and his Great- Uncle(#3 and the 1st), a prominent, first generation, silver tongued Senator - a true Irish politician and master of elocution. (not electrocution, e-lo-cution). Confused? You won’t be soon, all will become clear we assure you!

Introducing Dr. Bernard M. Patten (#1 but really the 3rd), Neurologist extraordinaire. Before he became all that (and much, much, more!) he had a lot of growing up to do. With his politician patriarchs grooming him for future governorship, what could go wrong for our young,budding, basement chemist?

Meet the Bernies (and Owens, and Tommies) and many others that influenced Dr. Bernie, growing up in the land of egg creams, devil dogs and Asses Up.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Identity Publications
• Release date: Sep 23, 2020
• ISBN: 9781664900752

Bernard M. Patten

Dr. Bernard M. Patten, an instructor of memory, neuroscience, and logic at Rice University and the Women's Institute of Houston, has been featured on 60 Minutes, Frontline, TF-1, BBC TV, German National TV, and Australian National TV. Dr. Patten holds an A.B. from Columbia College summa cum laude and graduated second in his class from Columbia's Medical School with an MD. He interned at Cornell and did his Neurology training at the Neurological Institute of New York, where he was Chief Resident Neurologist. Before acting as the assistant chief of medical neurology at the National Institutes of Health, he was the Memory Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine and set up the first memory clinic and memory consultation service in America. He has also taught as a visiting professor at the University of Montpellier in France, the Charcot Clinic in Paris, and the Karolinska in Stockholm. As the vice chair of the Department of Neurology and chief of nerve and muscle diseases at Baylor College of Medicine, Dr. Patten published over 100 scientific papers. He is the author of eight non-medical books in print, and his most notable professional accomplishments include being part of the team of physicians who discovered the L-DOPA treatment for Parkinson's Disease.