Dr. Bill Gould has practiced medicine in the Seattle area since the early 1980s. His undergraduate degree was in engineering from Penn State, where he played varsity football and completed the Army R.O.T.C Flight Program. In 1967, he was designated a Distinguished Military Graduate and commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the United States Army.

On Active Duty, he graduated from the U.S. Army Ranger School, then served as a captain in the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment in Viet Nam. He was awarded the Purple Heart and a Bronze Star.

Stunned by what he had seen in Viet Nam, he left active duty in 1970 to enter graduate studies in Social and Political Science and Chinese language at Cambridge University in England. With that Master's degree in hand, he continued those studies at Harvard University. After graduating in 1974, he worked as an assistant to the Honorable Kevin H. White, Mayor of Boston, then moved to Hong Kong in 1975 to direct the American Friends Service Committee’s efforts to deliver humanitarian aid to war refugees in Viet Nam.

In 1981, he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and in 1985 served for five months as a volunteer physician in a major African famine in Sudan’s Darfur Province. Over the past 30 years, he has also done volunteer medical work in Asia, returning to Viet Nam six times, drawn back by his respect and fondness for the Vietnamese people. In 2013, he taught for six months at Shan Tou University School of Medicine in Guangdong Province, China.

He has authored seven novels, with an eighth in preparation. In addition, he has published numerous journal articles, including essays in JAMA-The Journal of the American Medical Association, RACE-A Journal of Race and Group Relations, Medscape, Medical Economics, Consultant, ARMY Magazine, and The Pennsylvania Gazette. His novels speak of love and war and medicine, and the struggle each of us faces as we search for meaning.

He has pilot certificates in both fixed wing and helicopter aircraft, and still loves to fly. In 2018, he was presented with the Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award for 50 years of accident/incident-free flying.

He resides with the love of his life, Marlene, who taught junior high school for 40 years. Their home is deep in the Cascade Mountains of Washington State, where he continues to write, advise patients facing complicated medical challenges, work on his Mandarin Chinese and Vietnamese language skills, and fly.