A dedicated pediatrician who loves children, John J. Miller M.D. is on a mission to make hospital stays for kids less intimidating and to help them fill the time with great reads. Born just outside of Philadelphia, Dr. John Miller was the eldest of four boys raised by his machinist father and his stay-at-home mother. At the age of five, he was diagnosed with cancer-a neuroblastoma-requiring surgery and a prolonged hospital stay. "It was during that month in the hospital, that my imagination just soared. In those days, we didn't have any TV, IPads, IPhones, board games, or books to read in our ward of twelve pediatric beds. So I would lie there and gaze out the window for hours, watching the enormous brick smokestack across the grounds, belching its white smoke high into the sky. In my mind, I would create images of what I thought the smoke was forming-dragons, horses, knights on horseback, spears and lances, castles." Years later, following graduation from Thomas Jefferson Medical School in Philadelphia, Dr. Miller headed west to California. He has been a dedicated Pediatrician and Neonatologist in Southern California for the past forty-five years, caring for and healing thousands of children.
