Tom Martin’s autobiography communicates to us the power of the human spirit as he continued to paint and live his life with great humor after stricken
with chronic progressive multiple sclerosis. The powerful and whimsical paintings that enrich his autobiography often slash through the arrogance and
self-importance of his subjects to communicate their content with power and color. That Tom ever painted at all and that he continued to paint after stricken with a debilitating neurological disease were a struggle against odds that should have discouraged the strongest of us. In the face of great adversity, the comic spirit of his art communicated through the vibrate colors and the intense but simple themes cut to the core of the human psyche.
About the author
William ‘Bill’ Meggs is a physician, scientist, and writer. He received a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Syracuse University, where he became close friends with Tom Martin, an MFA student in the Art School. He received a National Science Foundation Post-doctoral Fellowship to do research at C.E.R.N. in Geneva, Switzerland. He was also a research physicist at Rochester and Mc Gill. In a major career change, he received an MD degree from the University of Miami’s Ph.D. to M.D. program and returned to Rochester for an internal medicine residency. He did subsequent training in clinical immunology at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center and medical toxicology at New York University. He is currently a professor of medical toxicology and emergency medicine at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University. His non-fiction book for the general public, The Inflammation Cure, published by Mc Graw-Hill, was favorably reviewed in the New York Times and the Library Journal. He co-authored The Inflammation Cure Cookbook, Health, and Safety in Farming, Fisheries, and Forestry, and Biomarkers of Immunotoxicology, published by the National Academies Press. He has published over 60 research articles in the physics and medical literature.
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