| N.F. Hanna, M.D. |
Physician + Author

Dr. Nosshey F. Hanna is a retired primary care physician with more than 40 years of experience as a physician in the United States and the United Kingdom. He operated his own practice in family and internal medicine in Jacksonville, Florida for more than 30 years, and he formerly served as associate editor of Northeast Florida Medicine for 10 years. Dr. Hanna is the author of Dying of Health Care, which has received top reviews from national leaders in health care policy, medical ethics, and the history of medicine. He has published a range of articles on medicine, including a widely-read op-ed in The Observer titled "Why Do We Pay So Much for Health Care - But Get Such Poor Results?"


Dr. Hanna was born and raised in Egypt, where he graduated from Ain-Shams University College of Medicine in the capital city of Cairo in 1974. He then received post-graduate training in the U.K., where he became a Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians and a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, London. Dr. Hanna is a former college soccer player and award winner in poetry in his native language.