Carl MatlockCarl Matlock, MD was born in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1945, attended Butler University in Indianapolis, receiving a BS in Chemistry and Zoology in 1968, and an MD degree from Indiana University School of Medicine in 1971. He practiced family medicinefor over sixteen years in small rural Indiana communities, emergency medicine in various emergency rooms for about twenty-three years in both inner city and rural hospitals, and geriatrics for over five years. Including years spent in training, he practiced for almost forty-seven years. He was Board Certified by the American Board of Family Medicine and by the American Board of Emergency Medicine. He has served in Honduras, Central America, on volunteer medical missions three times. Carl and his wife, Janet Matlock, enjoy travel and visiting with family and friends. Carl enjoys writing about his career in medicine, particularly from the early rural days of practice, so very different now from the high tech medicine he practiced the last several years. He has taught Sunday School for many years, and his interest in the Bible has taken him on trips to the Holy Land. He is now writing historical fiction of the first century A.D. about Jesus of Nazareth and his contemporaries. His personal library includes many books on the Shroud of Turin which his novels are addressing. Read More Read Less