Michael J. Collins MD

michaeljcollinsmd.com Following graduation from the University of Notre Dame, Mike spent several years working as a construction laborer, truck driver, cab driver and dock worker. His days as a laborer trying to get into medical school are chronicled in BLUE COLLAR, BLUE SCRUBS (St. Martin’s Press, 2009). He attended the Loyola Stritch School of Medicine, and then spent five years at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. His years as a resident and inveterate moonlighter in rural emergency rooms are the subject of HOT LIGHTS, COLD STEEL (St. Martin’s Press, 2005). Mike’s latest work, to be published September 1, 2021, is a work of fiction. What does a doctor do when he discovers his best is not good enough? ALL BLEEDING STOPS tells the story of Matthew Barrett, idealistic young combat surgeon in the Vietnam War. From the battlefields of Vietnam to the streets of Chicago during the 1968 Democratic convention; from an organ donor company in Ohio where he “strips dead bodies for a living,” to a remote African village where he cares for victims of the Biafran War, ALL BLEEDING STOPS is a grand and sweeping narrative tracing one man’s journey to reconcile love for his patients with the cold reality that there are some problems no doctor, and no amount of caring, can ever fix.