After working for eight years as the Los Angeles Raiders' team physician and for 4 years as president and president- elect for the NFL Physician's Society, he wrote You’re OK, It’s Just a Bruise—A Doctor’s Sideline Secrets about Pro-Football’s Most Outrageous Team, which provoked a national debate on anabolic steroids and other ergogenic (sport enhancing) aids over a decade before the senate "steroid" hearings.
[1][2] While the sections about steroids gained the most attention because they also dealt with the illness and death of Lyle Alzado, the book's main focus was about the demand to have injured players return to the field ASAP even if they were at risk for worse injuries.
[4] He continues to be active in the world of professional sports, being called in 2009 as an expert witness by the House Judiciary Committee looking into catastrophic brain injuries in football players.
Prescription to Reach Your Ideal Weight and Stay There, about his straightforward obesity treatment based on knowledge gained while working with professional athletes and on NBC's The Biggest Loser.
[8][9][10][11][12] In January 2013, he opened "The Clinic",[13][14] a combination resort, spa, and medical facility focusing on body optimization as well as the treatment of obesity and obesity-related illness.
Curiously, this book was in part inspired by an outrageously ignorant article in the New York Post showing blatant bias against the millions of persons worldwide with HIV.
It later bookends those early days by up-close chronicling the November 2015 events surrounding Charlie Sheen's bombshell announcement of his HIV status on The Today Show with Matt Lauer.