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Sometime in the 1950's he and his wife divorced. By 1957, Flato lived alone in a cottage he had designed and built in 1954 by the architect Serge Chermayeff.<ref>[http://ccmht.org/chermayeff.html Cape Cod Modern House Trust, Serge Chermayeff Projects on the Outer Cape]</ref> He lived near a beach on Cape Cod and worked as a freelance writer throughout the 60's and 70's. In 1957 he was the editor of the ''Complete Home Improvement Handbook''. ''The Golden Book of the Civil War'' was a children's book adapted by Flato and published in 1961. His article, "Medicine Looks at Nuclear War: Is there a Doctor in the Rubble?" was published in the June 9, 1962 issue of ''The Nation''. He is known to have used at least one ghost writer in the form of a friend for an article printed in ''The Saturday Evening Post'' on October 6, 1962.<ref>Saturday Evening Post, ''Parents Who Beat Children'', Charles Flato, October 6, 1962, Vol. 235, No. 35.</ref>

After Peking resumed diplomatic relations with the United States, Flato wrote a six-part report on health care in [[China]]. The Chinese Medical Association invited him to travel through the country as their guest. Flato was one of the co-founders of the Medical Pharmaceutical Information Bureau, and wrote and edited for the publication ''Hospital Practice''. He was known to have also written scripts for medical documentaries.