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I am going to proceed to a medical school sometime soon. I am very much interested to become a cardiologist. It was my very first ambition, and I don’t want to waste the opportunity. However, I also have this passion in writing (blame Beatrix Potter. LOL.). Now I’m stuck between both worlds. I need some, ehem, inspiration. How is it likely to become a bestselling fictional author if you’re a medical practitioner on the other hand?
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I am going to proceed to a medical school sometime soon. I am very much interested to become a cardiologist. It was my very first ambition, and I don’t want to waste the opportunity. However, I also have this passion in writing (blame Beatrix Potter. LOL.). Now I’m stuck between both worlds. I need some, ehem, inspiration. How is it likely to become a bestselling fictional author if you’re a medical practitioner on the other hand?
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8 responses so far ↓
1 Sudeep King of Scorn // Jan 31, 2009 at 5:24 am
A.J.Cronin, James Herriot (vet)
2 Vive // Jan 31, 2009 at 2:09 pm
Yeah, I’ve read a Harvard medical doctor’s info at the back cover of a murder novel. It was about some serial killing in a hospital – must be his own feelings towards his patients on a bad day lol.
I can’t remember the author’s name, though – sorry about that.
So you could put some doctor experience in your novel – maybe a heart surgeon who likes to gouge people’s hearts out (no i’m just kidding)
Good luck with both of your ambitions.
3 Meredith Greene // Feb 2, 2009 at 5:17 pm
Indeed, one of my favorite authors, Sir Author Conan Doyle (wrote the sherlock holmes series)
Also, John Keats ( a poet, though… and he really didn’t practice medicine all that much)
Anton Chekov (plays & short stories)
W. Somerset Maugham (novels & plays)
4 Persiphone_Hellecat // Feb 3, 2009 at 3:05 pm
Kahled Hosseini the author of the Kite Runner is a doctor so is Robin Cook who has written several medical fiction novels. Pax-C
5 Angie // Feb 4, 2009 at 3:48 am
Dr. Robin Cook —— bestselling author of such thrillers as “Coma”, “Godplayer”, “Outbreak” and many others.
6 Maryn Bittner // Feb 5, 2009 at 10:27 am
Michael Crichton has an MD.
7 Solveiga // Feb 6, 2009 at 3:08 pm
Well, besides the well known authors already mentioned, I could tell you about one friend of mine. He was a doctor, 2nd year resident. At the same time, he wrote wonderful short stories, even had one book published. Ive never met such a talented writer before [and after] him. What I know from him, is that medicine gave him alot of inspiration, a lot of ideas what to write about. [And Im talking in past tense cause he died one year ago - had an incurable disease].
I wish you would become a talended bestselling doctor
8 dana2592 // Feb 7, 2009 at 8:46 pm
Tess Gerritsen and Michael Palmer
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