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

By Rhea Griffiths

What would you do if you could remember everything you have ever heard? Meet young Bernie Patten, idiot savant(?) and sometimes just an idiot.
Who isn’t when they are growing up? 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 - who grasped the importance of Bernie’s unique ability to remember everything he’d ever heard and repeat it verbatim. Lovers of Shakespeare rejoice in a man that can recount all his work without a single scrap of paper to assist him.
Dr. Bernard M. Patten (#1 but really the 3rd), world renowned neurologist, had a lot of growing up to do before attending Columbia Univeristy and going to Medical School. His politician patriarchs were grooming him for future governorship, but he had other plans. What could go wrong for our budding, basement chemist?
Meet the Bernies (and Owens, and Tommies) and many others that influenced Dr. Bernie (as he was fondly known as by his patients) growing up in the land of egg creams, devil dogs and asses up.
Bernard Patten became the world’s foremost expert on Myasthenia Gravis & solved some of the most difficult and bizarre medical cases ever known. From a very young age he was a renowned public speaker. How that all came about is his tale. Told in the good old Irish tradition, Bernard Patten’s memoir is a delight to readers and reminds us that we are all part of a Wonderful World.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Rhea Griffiths
• Release date: Jul 16, 2017
• ISBN: 9781893108134

Rhea Griffiths

Neighborhood press was established in 1997. Beginning in Romance, we delivered award winning standard paper and hardcover formats, and e-books before they were cool. We know and set trends. The company suspended operations while the owner completed her active duty obligation, and now we're back and raring to go!

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