Author

Meet David Tollafield – Podiatrist, Writer, Educator

I'm a retired consultant podiatric surgeon with a lifelong passion for writing. From my early academic publications to today’s self-help foot books, I’ve always believed in making healthcare knowledge accessible.

I write for:

Patients wanting clear, honest advice
Students learning about podiatry and medicine
Professionals seeking insights from clinical practice

My books combine clinical expertise, personal experience, and creative storytelling. Outside of writing, I enjoy walking, theatre, music, and travelling with my wife—sources of joy and inspiration in my work.

Writing isn't just communication—it’s connection. And through my books and articles, I aim to help people make sense of foot pain and take control of their health.

Although my background was in science and medicine, I help those who don’t have the time to write – as Eugene Ionesco states, ‘for a writer life consists of either writing or thinking about writing.’

While predominantly a self-published author through Busypencilcase Communications since 2014, I have also published with Elsevier (Churchill-Livingstone). My information site and books are part of a non-profit business where all money is returned back to providing support and free to access articles as part of ConsultingFootPain on this site.

My wife and I enjoy walking and exploring our beautiful country and other parts of the world in my spare time. This brings inspiration and colour to stories. We sing acapella, and I tread the boards as an amateur thespian and lapsed poor classic guitar player. After all, we have to have some weaknesses, of which mine is a form of dyslexia – not the best for writing, but good for creating - but then, as E.M. Forster points out, ‘the historian records, and the novelist creates’.

I guess I am a bit of both.