Inquiries regarding new health concerns during the sexual revolution and the drug culture of the 1960s were the most common, and Dr. Hip's advice was refreshingly straightforward and nonjudgmental.
[2][3][4][5][6][7][8] Upon returning from Africa to the Bay Area in 1966, Schoenfeld was asked many questions, "somewhat furtively", by friends, acquaintances, and patients about new concerns arising primarily from sexual freedom and drug use, and these inquiries were not topics that could be broached with their own doctors.
His books, Dear Dr. HipPocrates,[9] Natural Food and Unnatural Acts,[10] Jealousy: Taming the Green-Eyed Monster,[11] and Dr. Hip's Down-To-Earth Health Guide,[12] had an empowering effect on those people.
Dr. Schoenfeld was a pioneering radio personality on Bay Area stations in the 1970s, and subsequent talk show doctors credit him for being a trailblazer.
[13] Schoenfeld has been the primary care physician to several famous individuals, including Timothy Leary,[14] Hunter Thompson, and David Crosby.