Crinkle Nose is a fictional novel that introduces Alex, an idealistic young college graduate about to enter his first year at Harvard Medical School, filled with optimism and naivety about his chosen profession. Medical School, however, teaches Alex many lessons about reality and life, and in the process, he discovers his inner self and his own complex motivations. He becomes torn by his affection for two women, who happen to be close friends, but who are polar opposites. One of them, Eileen, is a sexual, fiery coal-haired seductress and fellow medical student, and the other, Mary, a sexually repressed, seemingly innocent, but cold-hearted management trainee. As Alex progresses through his years as a medical student, this novel juxtaposes his emotional, physical and spiritual growth with his divided loyalties to these two women. In the end, Alex is left wondering whether love can prevail and overcome betrayal and pain.
Andrew Freese is a neurosurgeon in the Philadelphia area. After graduating with a combined M.D. and Ph.D. from Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he completed a Neurosurgery residency and fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania. Following this, he served on the faculties of several universities and medical schools, culminating in his position as Chairman of Neurosurgery at the University of South Carolina. He is now in private practice with additional academic appointments, and recently founded a spine and consumer products technology company, FreeseTEC. He has authored hundreds of papers and abstracts, several books on clinical neurosciences, and multiple patents. He has lectured throughout the world on his pioneering work in the field of gene therapy for neurological diseases, including the world's first successful human gene therapy trial for a neurological disease, Canavan Disease. He has been featured in numerous popular press articles and television shows, including Dateline. Dr. Freese has four children, the oldest of whom is a student at Harvard, and the other three at a private school in the Philadelphia area. He has participated in the care of approximately 20,000 patients and has performed about 5,000 surgical procedures.