Has three sons Michael, Alan and Lon all of whom are physicians.
Earned his bachelor's and medical degree from Cornell University,
qualifying as a doctor by the remarkably young age of 22. Issued a
physicians' license in California on 24 March 1937. A lieutenant in the
Army Air Force during World War II.
Was Marilyn Monroe's personal physician at the time of her
death.
Wrote a 1965 Journal of the American Medical Association study
documenting why smokers were more likely to suffer heart attacks than
nonsmokers.