Robert Ashley M.D. is an Internal Medicine physician practicing medicine with the UCLA Medical Group in Santa Monica, California. He is an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine ...view moreRobert Ashley M.D. is an Internal Medicine physician practicing medicine with the UCLA Medical Group in Santa Monica, California. He is an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at UCLA. Like other primary care physicians, Dr. Ashley has seen birth, death and much of what falls in between. The motivation to write Beautifully Absurd originates from patients' struggles with death that put in to question the meaning of life.view less