
Albert Goes to the Amazon
Dr. Jan Hahn was born in 1951 in Massachusetts and raised in Vineland, N.J. After graduating from Swarthmore College, he entered Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. Upon completing a family practice residency program in Galveston, Texas, he joined the Indian Health Service and worked for 4 years at Cherokee IHS Hospital in Cherokee, N.C. In 1984, he moved to Lenoir City, TN. where he practiced family medicine until 2012. In 2009, he returned to college to study English, and in 2011, he enrolled in Lincoln Memorial University's post-bac teacher licensure program and was certified to teach English 7-12. He taught Health Sciences at Farragut HS in Knoxville for 3 years. He then returned to medicine and is now practicing in Madisonville, TN.In 1991, he started a domestic violence program, Crisis Center for Women-IVAS, and was its chairman of the board until 2017. This is his fifth book. The first one, Voices, is a collection of poems describing many of the patients he has cared